Reaffirmed 2023

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Part 1) which is identical with ISO 12642-1 : 2011 - ‘Graphic technology - Input data for characterization of four-colour process printing - Part 1: Initial data set’ 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.

ISO 12642 consists of the following parts, under the general title Graphic technology - Input data for characterization of 4-colour process printing:

This standard is published in two parts. Other parts in this series is:

Part 2 Expanded data set

This part of ISO 12642 defines an input data file, a measurement procedure and an output data format for use in characterizing any four-colour printing process.

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

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