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The GAA gravure association has printed a reference printing condition for packaging gravure and submitted that to CGATS. For publication gravure, it uses SWOP and was the first example of how color management could be used to match two very different printing processes.

GRACoL is responsible for commercial offset. Besides revising its process control guidelines each year, it has printed referenced printing conditions for paper grades 1, 2 and 3. Grades 1 and 2 are being submitted to CGATS, although they will probably result in color-managed permutations of the same printing condition because they have the same density aim points and, therefore, the same gamuts. Grade 3 appears to be a color-managed variation of SWOP, but more testing is needed before it can be determined that it is representative of the industry and submitted to CGATS.