BS ISO 2846-1:2017 specifies the colour and transparency characteristics that are to be met by each ink in a process colour ink set intended for proof and production printing using offset lithography. The specified printing conditions (which use a laboratory printability tester), the defined substrate and a method for testing to ensure conformance are also defined. Characteristics are specified for inks used for sheet-fed, heat-set web and radiation-curing processes.

This document does not apply to fluorescent inks and it does not specify pigments (or spectral characteristics - except informatively) in order not to preclude developments which may enable different pigment combinations to be used advantageously while still achieving the colorimetric requirements specified in this document.


Cross References:
ISO 535:2014 ED3
ISO 8254-1:2009 Ed 2
ISO 2834-1:2006 (R10) Ed 1
ISO 2144:2015 ED5
ISO 13655:2009
ISO 6588-1:2012
ISO 536:2012
ISO 8791-4:2007
ISO 12647-2:2013
CIE Publication 15:2004


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