PRINTING United Alliance, the most comprehensive member-based printing and graphic arts association in North America, has announced the release of G7+, the next evolution in colour calibration.
G7+ is a new and improved calibration specification that replaces legacy G7 with new logic and algorithms, but similar overall appearance. G7+ training and certification will be available in-person during the COLOUR Conference portion of the PRINTING United Technical Event Series scheduled to hold March 12 to 14 in Dallas, Texas USA.
After an incredible 19-year run and over three years of Research & Development (R&D) by PRINTING United Alliance, G7+ is designed to work equally well with all printing technologies and offers increased value and effectiveness for a wider range of markets and applications, while preserving the value of existing G7 workflows. G7+ maintains the features, benefits, and general appearance of G7, but with more accurate gray balance, improved tonality, and better performance in unusual printing conditions.
“PRINTING United Alliance is excited to announce G7+ to continue our mission in supporting leading printers and print buyers around the world,” says Jordan Gorski, Executive Director, Idealliance. “G7 has raised the bar in the world of print and colour output as colorimetry and visual output became the norm rather than simply relying on density for matching colour. G7+ now integrates all modern print technology to be a standard that is applicable to all print, on all media, paper, board, film, signage, or textile, for any output condition that will truly provide print buyers and printers the ability to match colour on packaging, publications, signage and wide format graphics, while maintaining alignment to the standards in place among existing workflows.
G7+ is improved and optimized to:
- Improve gray balance and tonality across a wider range of print systems, including textile, web-offset, newsprint, and inkjet, while maintaining GRACoL® visual similarity.
- Achieve smooth, highly saturated colour in high-density inkjet printing.
- Use Substrate Colorimetric Colour Aims (SCCA) for more precise neutral gray on colour substrates.
- Attain accurate ICC profiles and lifelike images on calibrated systems without colour management.
Current G7-certified experts and professionals can become the first group trained and certified to G7+ during a special a pre-conference session at the PRINTING United Technical Event Series. Register for the session at: https://technicalseries.printing.org/ And for more information about G7+ visit: www.printing.org/g7plus or email: g7plus@printing.org
