Designed to assist print buyers and print producers ensure their jobs are meeting industry colour standards, the IDEAlliance has developed its all new Printing Guidelines 2011 poster.
The reference guide is a joint industry effort sponsored by the Digital Enterprise Education & Research foundation (DEER) a non-profit charitable foundation of IDEAlliance.
The 2011 Printing Guidelines Poster provides guidance according to the latest G7 specifications and ISO standards.
The poster is intended as a reference tool for every professional in graphic communications, including creatives and print buyers, as well as prepress, proofing and pressroom workers.
The guide explains how creatives and print buyers can ensure content is prepared, proofed and printed as accurately as possible.
In one page it addresses the challenges facing colour printing and examines how to manage print expectations. The prepress and proofing section of the poster describes how to convert creative materials into press-ready CMYK files, and how to create and verify accurate prepress proofs.
The pressroom section on the Guide charts ISO-standard inks and substrates as well as the G7 print control metrics for various print specifications.
The four-colour poster is sponsored in part by Agfa Corp., CGS Publishing, Condotta Visual Media, Dalim Software, EFI, Epson, Fujifilm, GMG, HutchColor, Integrity Graphics, JohnsByrne Company, Kodak, manroland, RIT, Sappi, Xerox, X-Rite, Pantone, and IDEAlliance.
