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GRACoL Developing Standard

ALEXANDRIA, VA—The GRACol (General Requirements and Applications for Commercial Offset Lithography) Committee, through the International Digital Enterprise Alliance (IDEAlliance), is conducting a series of press runs at various locations across the country to develop a new specification and working guidelines for consistent, high quality commercial color printing. The initial purpose of the press runs is to research and develop a clear description of how good commercial printing "appears" to the eye on a Number 1 sheet. The heart of the "print appearance" specification will be to develop a new characterization data set to replace DTR004.