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Color Alliance – Fogra-qualified digital printing partner
Monday 30. August 2010 - Color Alliance (CA) acquires large-format digital printing expertise certified by Fogra after CA employee Heiko Kienast completes DigitalPrint Expert (DPE) course with Fogra in Munich. Members of the Color Alliance, a partnership of leading international RIP and printing media manufacturers, are now able to receive Fogra certification much faster.
After passing a written and practical test, DigitalPrint Experts are capable of configuring and validating inkjet systems in accordance with the guidelines of the current ISO Standard (ISO/CD 12647-8 ‘Validation Print’). They can assist end users in preparing for and carrying out the FograCert Validation Print Creation (VPC) and request certification from Fogra.
The Color Alliance is therefore able to conduct the preliminary testing required for Fogra certification of a new CA-print medium independently. Thanks to the Fogra training received by Heiko Kienast, CA now has the necessary know-how available in-house. The overall testing procedure is much quicker and more cost-efficient for CA.
“The role of the DigitalPrint Expert fits our CA strategy perfectly, which is aligned with increasing quality and production reliability,” says Heiko Kienast. “On one hand it contributes to much faster certification of prints created using our CA-media by Fogra. On the other, it is a further stepping stone towards the creation of internationally valid standards for large format digital printing.”
The Fogra DigitalPrint Expert
Certification of DigitalPrint Experts expands the modular FograCert testing program for digital printing. This focuses on the qualification of users and manufacturers with respect to ISO 12647-8 in the area of digital printing and the necessary principles of color communication (color measurement and quality assurance) as well as hybrid data preparation.
By standardizing the print media (uniform CA coating) Color Alliance has long since been driving forward the development of an international standard. This aims to enable print service providers to receive process reliability for large format printing (LFP) anywhere in the world. The Color Alliance has been working closely with Fogra since the beginning of the year to define and then make available to print service providers the corresponding universal parameters for this. In addition, the Color Alliance has been a member of the Fogra Technology Research Association since the middle of the year.