DIGITAL Digest

RESTON, VA—The International Organization for Standardization's Technical Committee 130 (Graphic Technology) has announced the formation of a new task force to develop an international standard for the exchange of variable printing data. The standard is to be based on the CGATS.20-2002 (Graphic technology-Variable printing data exchange using PPML and PDF) data format, which was developed by a subcommittee of the American National Standards Institute. ISO Task Force 3 will be chaired by Tim Donahue, senior software engineer at NexPress Solutions (www.npes.org/standards/workroom.html)