APTech is accredited by the American National Standards institute (ANSI) as a Standards Developing Organization (SDO). We serve as the Secretariat to the CGATS and B65 ANSI-accredited standards developing committees.
APTech supports and administers the activities of the ANSI-Accredited Committee for Graphic Arts Technologies Standards (CGATS). The goal of CGATS is to have the entire scope of technical work for printing, publishing and converting technologies represented in one national standardization and coordination effort.
CGATS provides a vehicle for other industry organizations that have specifications to work under the CGATS "umbrella" to move their work into the standards arena, and have the work developed and approved as an American National Standard. The result of these joint efforts is the development of an ANSI CGATS standard.
The committee works to improve the efficiency of national standards development, facilitates information exchange, coordinates multi-discipline standards activities and is a liaison for international standards development.
CGATS has standards, either approved or in draft, relating to:
Standards are developed within subcommittees (SC), working groups (WG), or task forces (TF). Participation in standards development is open to anyone having an interest. To ensure standards stay current, all standards undergo a periodic review every five years to determine whether to reaffirm, revise or withdraw the standard.
For more information or to partipate in CGATS conatct [email protected]
APTech supports and administers the activities of the ANSI-Accredited B65 Committee. The B65 committee seeks participation from all members of the printing industry in the area of safety of printing equipment and systems. This work is open to anyone with an interest. The committee is especially seeking users of these technologies to participate in this work.
As the printing machinery industry becomes more globally focused, the design of uniform international safety standards is increasingly important. These standards allow manufacturers to design and build equipment to a single set of safety standards, regardless of the country of import/export.
Much of the B65 work has been incorporated into safety standards that are now published documents by ISO TC 130. B65 members continue to provide input into work being done at the ISO level, thereby ensuring the US viewpoints are taken into consideration. For ISO standards related to safety in graphic technology, B65 augments the work of the US TAG to ISO TC 130. In addition, B65 determines how best to adopt the work of ISO TC 130 as national standards, whether it be an identical national adoption or an adoption with modifications.
The B65 Committee develops ANSI safety standards for:
These standards address:
Standards are developed within subcommittees (SC), working groups (WG), or task forces (TF). Participation in standards development is open to anyone having an interest. To ensure standards stay current, all standards undergo a periodic review every five years to determine whether to reaffirm, revise or withdraw the standard.
For more information or to partipate in B65 conatct [email protected]
Advisory Group to the International Organization for Standardization's Technical Committee 130, Graphic Technology. The US TAG consists of experts from the industry who provide guidance to ANSI on the development of the U.S. position on international standards relating to the graphic arts.
APTech is accredited by ANSI to administer the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (US TAG) to the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 130 (ISO/TC130).
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee 130 (Graphic Technology) develops standards in the field of printing and graphic technologies. ISO/TC 130 standards include but are not limited to those of terminology, evaluation of visual appearance and product quality, data exchange, process control, management, conformity assessment, impacts on the environments as well as requirements on and testing of the related materials, equipment and systems.
The United States is a participating (voting member) of ISO/TC 130. ANSI accredits U.S. Technical Advisory Groups (U.S. TAGs). The primary purpose of these groups is to develop and transmit, via ANSI, U.S. positions on activities and ballots of the ISO Technical Committees.
For more information or to partipate in USTAG conatct [email protected]
Offering a platform where members can share their experiences and discuss current topics of interest in brand packaging.
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APTech serves as secretariat to the International Color Consortium (ICC)
The ICC is an organization devoted to the promotion of the use and adoption of open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform color management systems.
The ICC was established in 1993 by eight industry vendors for the purpose of creating, promoting and encouraging the standardization and evolution of an open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform color management system architecture and components. The outcome of this co-operation was the development of the ICC profile specification.
The intent of the ICC profile format is to provide a cross-platform device profile format. Device profiles can be used to translate color data created on one device into another device's native color space. The acceptance of this format by operating system vendors allows end users to transparently move profiles and images with embedded profiles between different operating systems. This permits tremendous flexibility to both users and vendors. For example, it allows users to be sure that their image will retain its color fidelity when moved between systems and applications. Furthermore, it allows a printer manufacturer to create a single profile for multiple operating systems.
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