RIT Formally Launches Printing Standards Audit Certification

RIT’s other key collaborator in developing PSA certification is IDEAlliance. Over the past decade, IDEAlliance enabled printers to achieve a shared neutral appearance across multiple technologies and substrates through the use of its G7 calibration method.

Currently, the IDEAlliance Print Properties and Colorimetric Council is developing the tolerances required to assess conformance to G7 aims contained in the GRACol and SWOP specifications. This allows PSA Certification to offer printers the choice of certifying their workflows to a G7-based standard or to ISO 12647-2. In either case, prepress and proofing workflows will be certified to the relevant ISO standards (15930 for data reception and 12647-7 for proofing). In the future, certification will be extended to cover conformance to the new process independent standard (ISO 15339) as soon as this draft standard is approved.