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Report from April 11-16  Berlin ISO TC 130 Graphic Communications meeting.

Meeting started with discussion regarding new soft proof panel standards. This is a 3 part standard including monitor, viewing condition, and system. Agreement was made to the edits needed and this set of documents will go out for a DIS (distributed international standard) after edits are made. These documents could be ready for publication after the next meeting in Berlin in September.

FOGRA is working on revising the 12647-1,2,3 standards (offset printing).  Much discussion regarding several other countries not wanting line ruling, screen angles and dot shape included in this document.  FOGRA has also included grey balance into this version. However only as an informative annex. This will not satisfy the Near Neutral calibration advocates. Heated discussion regarding this revision not including ΔE2000. This tolerances system was agreed to at the Plenary in Brazil and should be used in all revisions of documents.

15311 – Digital Print

15339 – Agnostic Reference Print Conditions

12647-6 – Flexographic Printing – Few edits were addressed, this document with go out for DIS 1st of April.

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