What's all this about standards and printing?
Welcome to the Colour Standards website, a resource developed jointly by the Australian ISO TC 130 committee, the Lithographic Institute of Australia (LIA) and the Printing Industries Association of Australia (PIAA). These organisations have a shared goal to promote the implementation of international standards into the Australian Graphic Technology market as a means of ensuring that our industry can compete on a global basis, as well as providing print certainty for the Australian industry and their clients.
Whether you are a print buyer, a printer, designer or any other interested member of the Graphic Arts community, we hope this site can offer the information that you need to achieve internationally recognized production standards. This site aims to provide an Australian focus for an international issue and to deliver information, education and assistance to those within the printing industry seeking to adopt the new Australian Standard.
Since the launch of this website in 2008 it has proved a valuable resource for those needing independent information about ISO standards and printing. Australia was the first country where the TC 130 adopted a proactive stance in partnership with industry to promote standards-based printing to the industry.
As a result another 'world first' has been undertaken: a list of all known Australian printers who have achieved ISO certification or compliance to the 12647 suite of standards has been added to the colour standards website. Until now all ISO 12647 certified printers were listed only on the websites of the various organisations that offered the certification. These printers deserve the recognition for their efforts in 'raising the standard' and this website now provides a central point of reference for all buyers of print that need to acquire ISO standards-based product.
The LIA, PIAA and the AU TC130 believe that it would be more efficient and effective to centralise this information and provide the printing industry, and its customers, with easily accessible information that would promote the use of ISO standards in printing. We hope you think so too.
To find this list simply follow the link below...
http://www.colourstandards.com.au/listof_printers.html
Luke Wooldridge
Australian TC 130 Chairman
