ISO/PAS 15339-2:2015
(Main)Graphic technology — Printing from digital data across multiple technologies — Part 2: Characterized reference printing conditions, CRPC1-CRPC7
Graphic technology — Printing from digital data across multiple technologies — Part 2: Characterized reference printing conditions, CRPC1-CRPC7
ISO/PAS 15339-2 specifies a limited number of characterized reference printing conditions that span the expected range of colour gamuts used for the production of printed materials from digital data, regardless of the printing process used. Their use is described in ISO/PAS 15339‑1.
Technologie graphique — Impression à partir de données numériques via des technologies multiples — Partie 2: Conditions d'impression de référence caractérisées, CRPC1-CRPC7
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PUBLICLY ISO/PAS
AVAILABLE 15339-2
SPECIFICATION
First edition
2015-08-15
Graphic technology — Printing
from digital data across multiple
technologies —
Part 2:
Characterized reference printing
conditions, CRPC1–CRPC7
Technologie graphique — Impression à partir de données numériques
via des technologies multiples —
Partie 2: Conditions d’impression de référence caractérisées, CRPC1–
CRPC7
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ISO/PAS 15339-2:2015(E)
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Contents Page
Foreword .iv
Introduction .v
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
4 Requirements . 1
5 Data files. 5
Annex A (normative) Tone value increase . 6
Bibliography . 9
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Foreword
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The committee responsible for this document is ISO/TC 130, Graphic technology.
ISO/PAS 15339 consists of the following parts, under the general title Graphic technology — Printing
from digital data across multiple technologies:
— Part 1: Principles [Publicly Available Specification]
— Part 2: Characterized reference printing conditions, CRPC1–CRPC7 [Publicly Available Specification]
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Introduction
ISO/PAS 15339 is based on the premise that in the printing and publishing industries, electronic
data are the intermediary for content storage and exchange throughout production including copy
preparation, job assembly, proofing, and process printing. It further assumes that data preparation can
be largely process-independent and that the choice of the printing process or processes to be used for
final production will be based primarily on run-length requirements and the substrates to be used.
There are various tools in place to both define the relationship of digital data to printed colour for
specific instances of printing and to manipulate data such that similar results can be obtained between
and among different printing processes (see ISO/TS 10128). These specific instances of printing are
typically described by colour characterization data, which is the relationship between CMYK input data
and colour measured on the printed sheet. Where such a set of colour characterization data are used as
a reference it is referred to as a characterized reference printing condition (CRPC).
ISO/PAS 15339-1 describes the principles involved in developing and working with CRPCs.
This part of ISO/PAS 15339 defines a set of CRPCs associated with the initial publication of
ISO/PAS 15339. It is intended that if changes in, or additions to, these data sets are needed in the future,
they will be documented in additional parts of ISO/PAS 15339 so that changes in the data sets are
possible without losing traceability to earlier data sets.
Not all printing processes that can achieve the same colour gamut are subject to the same limitations.
Offset, gravure, flexography, electrophotographic, ink-jet, etc. each have limitations that may have to
be considered in the final data preparation. These typically include limitations of total ink coverage,
and minimum and maximum printable dot sizes. Should general guidance be needed, additional parts
of ISO/PAS 15339 can be prepared to assist in the communication or standardization of the handling of
such limitations.
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PUBLICLY AVAILABLE SPECIFICATION ISO/PAS 15339-2:2015(E)
Graphic technology — Printing from digital data across
multiple technologies —
Part 2:
Characterized reference printing conditions, CRPC1–CRPC7
1 Scope
This part of ISO/PAS 15339 specifies a limited number of characterized reference printing conditions
that span the expected range of colour gamuts used for the production of printed materials from digital
data, regardless of the printing process used. Their use is described in ISO/PAS 15339-1.
2 Normative references
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated
references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO 12642-2, Graphic technology — Input data for characterization of 4-colour process printing — Part 2:
Expanded data set
ISO 13655, Graphic technology — Spectral measurement and colorimetric computation for graphic arts
images
ISO/PAS 15339-1, Graphic technology — Printing from digital data across multiple technologies — Part 1:
Principles
ISO 28178, Graphic technology — Exchange format for colour and process control data using XML or ASCII
text
CGATS TR015:2013, Graphic technology — Methodology for Establishing Printing Aims Based on a Shared
Near-neutral Gray-scale
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in ISO/PAS 15339-1 apply.
4 Requirements
As defined in ISO/PAS 15339-1, unless otherwise agreed between sender and receiver, the characterized
reference printing condition (CRPC) used for data preparation and data exchange shall be one of the
data sets defined in this or subsequent parts of ISO/PAS 15339.
The characterization data associated with the characterized reference printing conditions identified in
this part of ISO/PAS 15339 are presented as data files “ISO15339-CRPC1.txt” to “ISO15339-CRPC7.txt”
(see Clause 5).
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Although a normative part of this International Standard, they may be freely used and distributed
provided that the header of all distributed files indicates that they are part of ISO/PAS 15339.
NOTE 1 When additional CRPCs are published in subsequent parts of ISO/PAS 15339, it is expected they will
follow the same sequential naming scheme to avoid confusion, i.e. ISO15339-CRPC8 would be the next named
data set.
The characterized reference printing conditions included in these data files have been selected to be
near the middle of both the general class of printing that is expected to make use of each characterized
reference printing condition and the colour of the substrates used. It is also expected that adjustments
for substrate colour (see ISO/PAS 15339-1) will allow each characterized reference printing condition
to meet a wide variety of needs and be independent of the actual printing process to be used.
The tone reproduction curves used are based on the procedures defined in CGATS TR015 and are
dependent on the reflectance of the substrate and of the black and 3-colour solids. The equations of
CGATS TR015 provide the CIE Y tristimulus value corresponding to a particular cyan tone value of a
near neutral scale.
To provide a consistent relationship between the substrate corrected neutral scales of the various data
sets created for this part of ISO/PAS 15339, the CMY triplets defined by Formula 1 were mapped to the
substrate corrected neutral scale of all data sets:
−−42 53
MY==0,,7470CC−×4 100 10 +×2,940 10 C (1)
In addition, the densitometric tone value curves (computed according to A.3) for the three chromatic
colourants were adjusted to have the same tone value increase (see Table A.1).
The data given, for information only, in Tables 1 to 3 are taken from the CRPC data files and are shown
in these tables and figures for information. The CIELAB a*-b* projection of the characterization data of
each of these characterized reference printing conditions is shown in Figure 1.
All colorimetry is defined to be measurement condition M1, according to ISO 13655, with white backing.
NOTE 2 To facilitate the use of the correction of colorimetric data for variations in substrate colour as
described in ISO/PAS 15339-1, the header of each file contains the CIELAB values for both the substrate and a
reference black point of the data set. The values for the substrate are ID 1 in each data set and as described in
ISO/PAS 15339-1 the value in ID 1286 (the 4-colour solid) is used as a reference black point.
The substrate, single colour solids, and two-colour overprints that are the aims for the characterization
data set are as shown in Table 1 and Table 2.
The colorimetrically computed mid-tone TVI for each of the single colour scales of each of the
characte
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