ICS 37.100.01                          MSD 06

Reaffirmed 2022

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Part 1) (First Revision) which is identical with ISO 12647-1 : 2013 ‘Graphic technology — Process control for the production of half-tone colour separations, proof and production prints — Part 1: Parameters and measurement methods’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Publication and Graphic Technology Sectional Committee and approval of the Management and Systems Division Council.

This standard defines and explains the minimum set of primary process control parameters required to uniquely specify the visual characteristics and related technical properties of process-specific production prints and processindependent simulations of fully characterized printing conditions.

This standard was first published in 2012 and is now being revised to align it with ISO 12647-1 : 2013.

This standard is published in various parts. The other parts in this series are:

Part 2 Offset lithographic processes

Part 3 Coldset offset lithography on newsprint

Part 4 Publication gravure printing

Part 5 Screen printing

Part 6 Flexographic printing

Part 7 Proofing processes working directly from digital data

Part 8 Validation print processes working directly from digital data

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions and terminologies are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.