Article: Printing Across Borders and GRACoL: The New Direction for International Commercial Printing

Now is the time for commercial printing to finally move from a craft to a controlled process, because there no longer remain any quality barriers to making that transition. In the past, each commercial printing job was a custom process visually guided by a proof but dependent on the interpretive skills of the press man for the final result. Process control was limited to density, dot gain, and sometimes trap measurements, none of which are directly related to color measurements or image reproduction. The established commercial printing process was a four-step process:

1. Print to "balanced" solid density (determined by paper and ink limitations) and separate but reproducible dot gain goals ...

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