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Subcommittee 3 - Metrology Development
of standards for the measurement of optical characteristics
(e.g., densitometry, colorimetry, etc.) of graphic arts
images and materials.
Minutes of the March 2008 Meeting in Mesa, AZ
Minutes of February 21-23, 2007 Meeting in Mesa, AZ
Subcommittee 3 Task Force 1 - Objective Color Matching Development
of a method based on colorimetric measurements which will
estimate the probability that hardcopy images reproduced by
single or multiple systems, using identical input, will appear
similar to the typical human observer.
Minutes of the March 2008 Meeting in Mesa, AZ
Minutes of February 21-23, 2007 Meeting in Mesa, AZ
Subcommittee 4 - Process Control Development of standards that support the application of printing process control (e.g., process definition, characterization, analysis, control tools, etc.).
Minutes of the March 2008 Meeting in Mesa, AZ
Minutes of February 21-23, 2007 Meeting in Mesa, AZ
Subcommittee 5 - Materials Handling Identification
of needs relating to handling of materials used in, or produced
by, the printing or converting process.
Subcommittee 6 Working Group 1 - PDF/X Development of a set of standards to be used for the electronic exchange of files using Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF).
Subcommittee 6 Working Group 2 - Variable Data Exchange
Development of a standard relating to the creation and
exchange of documents that combine both database information
and variable content.
Subcommittee 6 Working Group 3 - Diecutting Data (IT8.6) Maintainance of IT8.6-2002, "Graphic technology - Prepress
digital data exchange - Diecutting data (DDES3)".
Subcommittee 9 Working Group 2 - Ink and Color Characterization for Packaging Development of a procedure to characterize package printing of standard and non-standard process colors.
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