BPG are proud to announce its certification to the international colour standard ISO 12647.

 

The certification has been awarded after many of months of collaboration, including valuable R&D, spanning our prepress and press room. Financial investment in ISO enabling technology was also made in both departments. The investment included the purchase of the Pressview Colour Management System.

 

Pressview is a comprehensive colour management system designed to achieve and maintain colour standards across multiple printing presses and proofing devices. For the tech heads, Pressview uses spectrophotometers to measure CILEB* values to determine absolute colour. The CIELAB* is a colour mapping system designed to accurately plot any and all colours in the spectrum.

All of our proofing devices have been recalibrated to conform to ISO 12647-7. Rigorous testing of our plates, as well as printability tests on our presses were conducted. Many months of trials and modifications were undertaken on the ink that we used to obtain standard ink film densities.

 

The result is a print manufacturing facility that can guarantee the colour that it reproduces is ‘ correct’. Each time a proof is produced, we use Pressview to measure the LAB values of a control strip printed onto each proof. Provided the measurements fall within the stringent parameters, a label is then printed to indicate compliance..

 

Once your proof is approved and the plates released for printing, the press operator must ensure the colour is reproduced exactly on the press. This is achieved by the use of Pressview to measure LAB values of a colour bar on the printed press sheet. The results are displayed on a monitor that gives the operator instant feedback as to colour accuracy.

 

In our quest to continually strive for colour reproduction supremacy and accuracy, the implementation of ISO 12647 at Wetherill Park, is proof of our commitment to world best standards. For our clients it means absolute confidence in our ability to produce print media to a broadly accepted international standard. A standard that ensures predictable colour across every output device and press at our Wetherill Park site. It also means for our international clients, that they can be assured the job they produce in Australia at our site, will match the job that they need produced anywhere else in the world, provided the printing company is not only ISO 12647 certified, but has ensured continual compliance to these stringent standards.