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Tuesday 05. May 2009 - International Newspaper Color Quality Club 2010-2012

As of immediately, newspaper publishing houses worldwide can register their titles for participation in the International Newspaper Color Quality Club competition, the worldwide benchmark for newspaper printing quality.

Besides the registration form, also available on the website www.colorqualityclub.org is all information in relation to the competition, including the Study Tour (visiting members of the Color Quality Club 2008-2010 in three countries), the “Color – Quality – Production” Conference as well as the Tutorials for preparing participation in the INCQC competition. The “INCQC 2010-2012” brochure is available also for downloading free of charge.

A video gives you a compact overview both of the steps to be taken at the newspaper as well as the measurements subsequently carried out in the IFRA laboratory to evaluate the printed samples.

The most important data and facts concerning
the competition
– Participants who register by 16 October 2009 (cut-off date) can request a free test evaluation.
– Between January and April 2010 monthly test prints must be produced and several copies submitted to IFRA for evaluation – intermediate evaluations give guidance.
– For the first time, the competition is open to all newspapers. This is made possible by the inclusion of new categories that cover all production processes and materials used.
– Club membership is contingent on reaching a minimum number of points – the former limitation to the 50 newspapers with the best results no longer applies.
– The new INCQC 2010-2012 members will be confirmed with the mailing of the final evaluations in June 2010. They will be presented at IFRA Expo (4 – 6 October 2010 in Hamburg).

Participation fees and discounts
The regular participation fee is EUR 2400; IFRA members as well as members of the NAA and PANPA newspaper publishers’ associations pay half price. Eligible for an additional discount are all newspapers that have participated already in one of the standardisation programs initiated by IFRA: ACER (Latin America), CINCO (Spain), CQ2 (Italy), ICONS (India), KWIK (The Netherlands), SNAP (U.S.A.), SINCOL (South-East Europe) and QUIZ (Germany). The fee for them is EUR 800.

As in previous years, IFRA is again pleased to offer special INCQC tutorials in 2009:
– on 8 June in Darmstadt, Germany, in the German language;
– on 9 June in Darmstadt, Germany, in the English language;
– on 13 July in Hyderabad, India, in the English language.

Project Manager Roland Thees, phone +49.6151.733-788 or
e-Mail thees@ifra.com, will be pleased to provide more information about the INCQC.