ISO TC 130 has made tremendous progress in the past years to further establish well designed and widely recognized standards in the graphic art industry. The collaboration between Fogra, bvdm, ECI and Ugra based on theses standards showed a great progress in establishing characterization data namely from FOGRA27 up to FOGRA32. The ICC profiles built on top of theses data sets such as ISOcoated.icc or ISOWebcoated.icc did a tremendous job in separating data as well as in hardcopy and soft proofing. Briefly characterization data comprise the relationship between CMYK tone value patches and the corresponding CIELAB colour values for a given printing condition. The extension “L” to be found in the file name, such as FOGRA39L, stands for the extended data set comprising 1617 patches defined in ISO 12642-2, while no “L” reflects the valid subset of ISO 12642-2 comprising 1485 patches. The latter one is widely know as “ECI2002 test chart” used e.g. in the Altona Test Suite.
Based on extensive praxis tests the process standard ISO 12647-2, reflecting the fundament of the Process Standard offset printing [PSO], has been slightly modified with respect to the solid coloration. These changes are covered in a separate document called ISO 12647-2:2006 DAM 1, which amend the
Andreas Kraushaar