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Idealliance is a “Liaison A” to the ISO Standards Technical Committee. Idealliance is a committee member to the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (USTAG) to ISO Technical Committee 130. As well as a member of the Parent Committee for the Committee for Graphic Arts Technical Standards (CGATS). We have recognized Global Experts on staff that participate in voting, writing, influencing, and shaping both U.S. and Global printing standards.

ISO/ TC 130 Graphic Technology-Current ISO Standards Under Development

ISO 2836: 2021 Graphic technology — Prints and printing inks — Assessment of resistance of prints to various agents
ISO/CD 5776 [Under development] Graphic technology — Symbols for text proof correction
ISO 12635: 2021 Graphic technology — Plates for offset printing – Dimensions — Specifies the width, length and thickness of metal lithographic Computer to Print (CtP) printing plates, both processed and unprocessed.
ISO 12641-2: 2019 Graphic technology — Prepress digital data exchange — Part 2: Advanced colour targets for input scanner calibration
ISO/FDIS 12643-1 [Under development] Graphic technology — Safety requirements for graphic technology equipment and systems — Part 1: General requirements
ISO/FDIS 12643-2 [Under development] Graphic technology — Safety requirements for graphic technology equipment and systems — Part 2: Prepress and press equipment and systems
ISO/DIS 12643-3 [Under development] Graphic technology — Safety requirements for graphic technology equipment and systems — Part 3: Binding and finishing equipment and systems
ISO/DIS 12643-4 [Under development] Graphic technology — Safety requirements for graphic technology equipment and systems — Part 4: Converting equipment and systems
ISO/CD 12643-5 [Under development] Graphic technology — Safety requirements for graphic technology equipment and systems — Part 5: Manually-fed stand-alone platen presses
ISO/CD 12647-6: 2020 Graphic technology — Process control for the production of half-tone colour separations, proofs and production prints — Part 6: Flexographic printing
ISO 12647-8: 2021
Graphic technology – Process control for the production of half-tone colour separations, proof and production prints – Part 8: Validation print processes working directly from digital data
ISO/FDIS 12647-9 [Under development] Graphic technology — Process control for the manufacture of half-tone colour separations, proofs and production prints — Part 9: Metal decoration printing processes
ISO/TS 15311-1: 2020 Graphic technology — Print quality requirements for printed matter — Part 1: Measurement methods and reporting schema
ISO/TS 15311-2: 2018 Graphic technology — Print quality requirements for printed matter — Part 2: Commercial print applications utilizing digital printing technologies
ISO 15930-9: 2020 Graphic technology — Prepress digital data exchange using PDF — Part 9: Complete exchange of printing data (PDF/X-6) and partial exchange of printing data with external profile reference (PDF/X-6p and PDF/X-6n) using PDF 2.0
ISO 16612-3: 2020 Graphic technology — Variable data exchange — Part 3: Using PDF/X-6 (PDF/VT-3)
ISO 16684-1: 2019 Graphic technology — Extensible metadata platform (XMP) specification — Part 1: Data model, serialization and core properties
ISO/TS 18621-11: 2022 Image quality evaluation methods for printed matter — Part 11: Colour gamut analysis
ISO/TS 18621-31: 2020 Image quality evaluation methods for printed matter — Part 31: Evaluation of the perceived resolution of printing systems with the contrast –resolution chart
ISO 19301: 2020 Graphic technology — Guidelines for schema writers — Template for colour quality management
ISO 19302: 2018 Graphic technology — Colour conformity of printing workflows
ISO/DTR 19305 [Under development] Graphic technology — Framework for TC 130 standards
ISO 20294: 2018 Graphic technology — Quantification and communication for calculating the carbon footprint of e-media
ISO/FDIS 20616-1 [Under development] Graphic technology — File format for quality control and metadata — Part 1: Print requirements exchange (PRX)
ISO 20616-2: 2020 Graphic technology — File format for quality control and metadata — Part 2: Print quality exchange (PQX)
ISO 20677: 2019 Image technology colour management — Extensions to architecture, profile format and data structure
ISO 21632: 2018 Graphic technology — Determination of the energy consumption of digital printing devices including transitional and related modes
ISO 21812-1: 2019 Graphic technology — Digital data exchange — Print product metadata for PDF files — Part 1: Architecture and core requirements for metadata
ISO/TS 21830: 2018 Image technology colour management — Black point compensation for n-colour ICC profiles
ISO/DS 22067-1.2 [Under development] Graphic technology — Environmental declaration criteria and parameters for printed products — Part 1: Packaging
ISO/CD 22909 Graphic technology — Decorative prints — Preparation of laminate samples for appearance assessment
ISO 22934: 2021 Graphic technology — Communication of ink properties
ISO/TS 23031: 2020 Graphic technology — Assessment and validation of the performance of spectrocolorimeters and spectrodensitometers
SO/CD 23395.2 Graphic technology — Method and device for testing the surface strength of coatings using an adhesive tape
ISO 23498: 2020 Graphic technology — Visual opacity of white ink
ISO/DTS 23534-1 [Under development] Image technology colour management — Interoperability conformance specification: Architecture for process colour plus spot colour overprint simulation — Part 1: Colorimetric processing