US-based Printing United Alliance has introduced the G7+ colour calibration system, a significant update to, and replacement for, the G7 global industry aligning specification for achieving visual similarity across all print processes. G7+ has new logic and algorithms but retains a similar overall appearance to its predecessor for ease of use.
“Printing United Alliance is excited to announce G7+ to continue our mission in supporting leading printers and print buyers around the world,” said Jordan Gorski, executive director, Idealliance. “G7 has raised the bar in the world of print and colour output as colourimetry and visual output became the norm rather than simply relying on density for matching color. 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.
After a 19-year run and over three years of R&D by Printing United Alliance, G7+ is optimised to: improve grey 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 Color Aims (SCCA) for more precise neutral grey on colour substrates; attain accurate ICC profiles and lifelike images on calibrated systems without colour management.