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News Release from: Ghent PDF Workgroup
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Flexo Printing Association Joins PDF
Group
The Flexographic Technical Association (FTA), the professional society dedicated to supporting and advancing the flexographic printing industry, has joined the Ghent Workgroup (GWG).
The Flexographic Technical Association (FTA), the professional society dedicated to supporting and advancing the flexographic printing industry, has joined the Ghent Workgroup (GWG) The GWG is an international organisation made up of graphic arts users, associations and developers building best practices for printing production workflows
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 25 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Dr John Anderson, technical and education director of the FTA, said: "The Ghent Workgroup's specifications have become an international benchmark for PDF quality assurance.
As formats such as PDF become more prevalent in flexographic applications, the ability to effectively manage and determine quality standards for creation and production becomes an important issue.
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We are pleased to represent our members in contributing to the GWG's efforts in this regard." David L Zwang, vice chairman of the GWG, added: "It was crucial to have the FTA join our efforts, for the benefit of the international graphic arts community.
Flexo professionals look to the FTA for guidance for good reason - it is a powerful, resource-rich, association that enjoys a successful history in providing member services.
It's those same attributes that will make the FTA an important contributor to the GWG." The two organisations celebrated the start of the relationship at the FFTA annual forum and Infoflex exhibition in Louisville, Kentucky (USA) where FTA hosted a GWG packaging sub-committee meeting.
Said to be one of the most active groups within the GWG, the packaging subcommittee comprises members representing more than 30 companies all over Europe and throughout the USA.
They include pre-press, printing, converting, repro and industry associations, as well as brand owners, vendors, consultants and educational institutions.
Amongst its members are Nestle, Kraft, L'Oreal, Brachs Candies, Sara Lee, AGI, Curwood North America, Fort Dearborn Company, Graphic Packaging, Bemis Graphics, Southern Graphic Systems, Schawk, Vertis, Phototype, FTA, IPA, CalPoly Tech, RIT, Adobe Systems, Agfa, Artwork Systems, Creo, Enfocus Software, Esko-Graphics and Global Graphics Software.
The sub-committee's goals include the definition of best practices to include settings, rules, guidelines, workflows and a framework to define PDF as the exchangeable file format for the packaging industry, based on industry standards and market demands.
It also seeks to establish guidelines and settings that will be suitable for the entire printed packaging process, from design through to print and covering all printing processes - flexo, offset and gravure, for instance.
In 2005, the GWG packaging sub-committee successfully delivered its first packaging design specification.
The sub-committee is now preparing a complete 'package' of that broadens the scope of packaging-related systems, including downstream profiles for offset, Flexo and gravure test files, as well as documentation.
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