Presentation by George Battrick - available for download
Presentation by Florian Süßl - available for download
Nothing new
Hanno Hoffstadt is sick, also misses support from Printers and Measurement
Dietmar Wüller reports about development and negotiations with US regarding characterization and naming of a RGB standard profile.
ICC profiles should be easily found on websites by human beings but also by a piece of software - also required for reference destination profiles.Olaf recommends a central locations where the most profiles are available machine readable, licensing will be attached to the system, but it's not required during a download to agree in any way. Technically it's revolving around printing conditions. Documentation and short description is required. English is mandatory, other languages additionally are allowed. Defined folder structure on a webserver, machine readable. Mirror servers at other locations like IFRA, Fogra Adobe, Heidelberg etc. In applications only the URL is mentioned, not the profile itself.
Removing from the central webserver under normal conditions is not allowed. Olaf requests backing from the ECI group for this project. XRite reserved the right for each profile, this is not acceptable for the intended system. No such problems with Heidelberg or BasICColor. A kind a deciding experts are required to drop an ICC profile into the system.
2 license agreements required:
Beijing was unfortunate, McDowell's Process Agnostic approach, no expert participants from Germany (exept Convener, Chair), fear of loosing advantages of process control. Revision of some topics in St. Gallen expected, main goal to revise 12647 1/2/3/4. Paper industry participants want to remove the paper properties out of the standard. which definitely is an integral part of the print standards. Technical report from Craig Revie, Phil Green, on ISO 12647 (Action item) is supported by Karl Michael by provision of the current content list “Process Standard Offset”. Process agnostic approach is expected to be a long term project and is not clear at the moment.
FDIS, closes early May, individual layers will be allowed
completeted in Rochester, on its way to publication
published by XRite: Tobias Rausch:
* St. Gallen in April 2010 * Sao Paulo October 11-15 2010 * Berlin April 2011
Dictionary for Color Conversion, to be discussed in June in Paris
Rules for simulating overprint, there are no guidelines for PDF-Viewer or Proof/Monitor or InkJet/Laserprinter. Goal. if overprint is used, it should be simulated on any output device and every PDF must simulate it depending on the file content. Means there must be a CMYK outpunt intent, not required for RGB. Not intended to give rules how the overprint calculation is done
Black point compensation in Acrobat needs to be corrected to avoid wrong results (same effect in Photoshop and Indesign)
intended for blind people, some laws require access to handicaped people.
report by Karl Michael Meinecke, George Battrick
Prepared by Intergraf Communication Task Force (Printing Standard Network) including Elie, Wilco, Pascale, KM et al. Two day conference November 23/24, 2009 with 53 European Experts from 11 countries including many ISO TC 130 experts. Total of 26 presentations, moderator KM. Topics: Printing standards development and application, certification, paper properties, supporting documents etc. Presentation of latest standard printing conditions to ISO 12647 (Offset 2009, PSR V2) recommended by bvdm, ECI, ERA, Fogra, Ifra, Ugra. Drifting interests between solution providers, consultants and certificators and specially manufacturers of printing papers, similar to discussions in ISO TC 130. Download of information, presentations at www.printing-standard.net Next (half day) meeting planned by April 2011 in conjunction with ISO TC 130 in Berlin.
Ms. Schermuly-Wunderlich presented the planned 3 days Print Media Congress in Mainz at ZDF conference center in September 2009, 22-24. Prepress / Print / Finishing, including an economic part. German Language only. Unfortunately date collidates with Photokina
goal is promoting PDF/X-4.Advantage is keeping the transparency, from a technical point of view it's better and do flattening on the RIP. Creating PDF/X-4 must be easier. Flattening engine in Photoshop, Indesign and Acrobat work different. Wide spread between people with high and low knowlede at PrePress and Printers Site. X-4 is not device independent.
HSWO = HeatsetWebOffset - already covered
… introduced a X-Rite Graphic Arts Standard (XRGA) as Inter-instrument model agreement between different measurement devices. Problem: Gretag and Xrite measure different. XRGA should fix this. Possible that differences between old and new calibrated ones will be different. Providing a new Color Port Software (V2) which provides transformation to the new XRGA standard. All new graphic arts instruments will run it natively, tools will be available to upgrade the older ones. Internally it's applying correction curves. Replacement of Profile Maker in 2010.
… causes confusion and have nearly no additional benefit. Biggest difference is a clean up of the spec and a default gamut with the possibility to create an own one (Perceptual reference Media Gamut). No known substantial advantages. Olaf recommends to avoid them. Andi mentioned that many problems that motivated V4 has been solved over the course of time with V2. He recommends to collect the issues and informs the ICC about that list and the potential agreement to stick with V2 for the time being.
Gathering informations about V4 profiles seems to be useful.
Olaf gets in contact to ICC to figure the benefits out.
Minutes by Roland Thees, WAN-IFRA with contributions from meeting participants