ISO 15339-1/15339-2 Meeting Notes
A meeting was held by the U.S. Technical Advisory Group concerning the ballots on 15339-1 and 15339-2. Here is a summary of that meeting as the U.S. delegation decides how to respond to the ballot that approved these two standards at DIS stage but then rejected them at FDIS stage.
It was explained that ISO/DIS 15339-1 and ISO/DIS 15339-2 both were approved with no substantial technical comments on the DIS ballot, which were all accepted. Although an FDIS ballot was not necessary, the decision was made by the WG3 convener to conduct an FDIS ballot. The U.S. did not object. The FDIS failed due to irregularities with voting including lobbying by Germany in an effort to get some “P” members to change their votes.
The editor in collaboration with the TC 130 chair and secretariat agreed to submit plenary resolutions to have both documents published as technical specifications. The TC 130 chair made the decision not to circulate the resolution to either “P” members within TC 130 or to WG3. During the plenary meeting there was an effort to defeat the resolutions by the German and U.K. delegations. A member of the U.K. delegation circulated a document to a limited number of people who then submitted negative votes on the resolutions via email. Due to a misinterpretation by the TC 130 secretariat of a message from ISO/CS regarding the validity of the email votes, they were counted.
This resulted in strong disagreement from most countries present that these votes should not be included, as the representatives from these countries were not present. In the case of Switzerland, although a representative was in attendance, he was not allowed to vote, as the email vote from his country had already been counted.
After a lengthy discussion, a third resolution was drafted that disallowed the email votes; this resolution was approved. After the meeting a decision was made by ISO/CS and the TC 130 secretariat that all three resolutions were invalid and that a letter ballot should now be circulated which allows all national bodies to review the resolutions and vote accordingly. A CIB letter ballot will be circulated that allows only “P” members to vote.
A statement will be circulated with the ballot that states the following:
The question of whether to publish 15339-1/15339-2 as a technical specification was discussed at the 28th plenary meeting of TC 130 in Beijing. However, because the issue was not announced as an item for decision on the meeting agenda distributed six weeks in advance, decisions taken at the meeting on this matter (Resolutions 530 /531) cannot be accepted, as not all committee members had a fair and equal chance to vote. Therefore, committee internal ballots are being launched in order to come to a clear committee decision on how to proceed with 15339-1/15339-2.
There was a discussion on the relationship between ISO 12647-2 and how it relates to the datasets and requirements in ISO 15339-1/15339-2. The following talking points were developed:
- ISO 15339-1 is a framework for creating characterization datasets for all types of printing (flexo, offset, gravure, screen and digital). ISO 15339-2 is the first series of datasets that can be appended with further parts of 15339
- The 7 CRPCs (datasets) are a result of compromise and are inter related; changing one CRPC is potentially destructive to the set as a whole. These datasets are compatible with printing using TVI or color management as a control tool
- ISO 15339 has been viewed as critical for brand owners who may have multiple printing processes and substrates as part of a campaign. This originated as a request from the PDF Ghent Workgroup
- CRPC 6 and CRPC 1 are compliant with the specifications of 12647-2 2013 and 12647-3 for offset printing and newsprint
It was suggested that these bullet points be used as a basis for U.S. experts to dialog with other experts to promote the vote on 15339.
Finally, a new project was discussed and should be initiated that deals with the computation of perceptual uniform tone values for spot colors.
Working Group 4
WG4, Media And Materials convener Dr. Berthold reported the following status information to the TC 130 plenary session in Beijing:
- ISO 2834-2 Graphic technology – Laboratory preparation test prints – Part 2: Liquid printing inks had a positive DIS voting result with one negative (unresolvable) vote, was discussed and will be finished by publication. Ongoing discussions took place on measures to replace the test substrate APCO in ISO 2846-1. A revision to add a new testing substrate is planned for the next WG4 meeting in Bologna
- ISO 2846-3 Graphic technology – Color and transparency of printing ink sets for 4-color-printing – Part 3: Publication gravure printing will be withdrawn in 2015
- ISO 2846-5 Graphic technology – Color and transparency of printing ink sets for 4-color printing – Part 5: Flexographic printing will be withdrawn in 2015
- ISO 12632 Graphic technology – Prints and printing inks – Assessment of penetrability, detachment and resistance of printed labels to hot alkaline solution will be balloted as stage DIS in 2015
- ISO 12634 Graphic technology – Determination of tack of paste inks and vehicles by a rotary tackmeter. The revision of the standard had a positive second CD vote with two negative votes and will be further developed for a DIS voting
- ISO 12636 Graphic technology – Blankets for offset production. The revision of this standard has expired. The convener will ask the interested parties on their future intentions
Working Group 13
WG13, Printing Conformity Assessment Requirements convener Professor Bob Chung reported the following activities to the plenary session of TC 130:
- ISO 16761-1 Graphic Technology – Printing workflow definition, requirements and testing conditions – Part 1: Commercial printing. New work item and working draft ballot passed. The proposed resolution of comments was discussed at the eighth meeting. Next steps are to provide an updated version of ISO 16761-1 for distribution for a two month CD ballot
- ISO 16761-2 Conformity testing conditions – Package printing workflow. New work item and working draft ballots were approved. A proposed resolution of comments was discussed at the eighth meeting. Next steps are to provide an updated version of ISO 16761-2 for distribution for a two month CD ballot
- ISO 16761-3 Graphic Technology – Printing workflows definition, requirements and testing conditions – Color quality management certification scheme. New work item and working draft ballots were conducted. The ballots closed on Jan. 3, so the results have yet to be reported. It is proposed to change the project number from ISO 16761-3 to ISO 1930x and to provide an updated version of current ISO 16761-3 based on the resolution of comments on the NWI ballot
If you would like to review and comment on any of the upcoming ballots on these standards, please contact FTA Director of Education Joe Tuccitto.
About the Authors: Jean Engelke is the chair of FTA’s Flexo Quality Consortium. She has earned an AAS in Graphic and Design Technology, a BA in Printing Management, an MBA, and an MA in Industrial Engineering Management. Jean started her career teaching Printing and Paper Science at Western Michigan University. She has held positions in R&D, engineering and global product marketing with Appleton Papers, Alcan Packaging and Eastman Kodak Company. Currently she is the Business Development Manager – Packaging Group for RR Donnelley.
Dr. Danny Rich obtained a master’s degree in physics in 1977 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA. In 1998, he joined Sun Chemical Corp. to direct the Sun Chemical Color Research Laboratory in the Daniel J. Carlick Technical Center in Carlstadt, NJ. He has been awarded the Nickerson Service award from the Inter-Society Color Council in 1999, the National Printing Ink Manufacturers award for Technical Achievement in 2008, a Thomas Alva Edison award for innovation by the Research Council of New Jersey in 2008, and the Robert F. Reed Medal from the Printing Industries of America in 2013.