Digital and Offset Printing: Seeking Workflow Oneness

The basics of G7 were developed by Don Hutcheson of HutchColor LLC, who subsequently granted the intellectual property rights to IDEAlliance. Refinement of the process control methodology and its publication as a specification were initially handled by the IDEAlliance GRACoL Working Group. This led to the misconception that G7 was akin to GRACoL, rather than being applicable to a range of processes beyond sheetfed offset printing.