GRACoL Launches G7 Press Pre-Qualification Project

The GRACoL Press Operator's Guide Project

During the summer of 2007, the GRACoL Committee worked to address the first consideration by developing the Press Operator's Guide to Color and G7. GRACol members joined other industry associations to complete this project to provide guidance to the pressman so that G7 techniques can be used along with process controls defined in ISO 12647-2 on a daily basis. The goal of the Press Operator's Guide initiative was to identify current pressroom best practices and specify a new set of best practices to implement G7 techniques press side. According to Dianne Kennedy, the IDEAlliance GRACoL Program Director, "The experience of our printer and press manufacturer members shows that G7 techniques are not incompatible or in competition with the best practices defined by ISO 12647-2 and widely implemented around the world. By documenting these best practices along with additional G7 best practices for the press room, IDEAlliance hopes to provide a much needed bridge between G7 and ISO 12647-2 process controls so that pressmen can reap the benefits of both sets of process controls being used in tandem." The Press Operator's Guide to Color and G7 can be downloaded from www.gracol.org .