Streamlining Printing with GRACoL® Profiles: Achieving Visual Excellence

Defined as General Requirements for Applications in Commercial Offset Lithography , printers prefer utilizing a system or profile method for ideal color printing outcomes. With this as criteria, this became the objective established by an Ideal Alliance Organization 2006 report. The print industry needed to have a researched and bona fide methodology that would positively impact the workflow of commercial technologies in offset lithography. This would not only benefit the customer, but streamline the printing process and could impact operational profitability.

The GRACoL®defined goal was to improve communications and education in the graphic arts industry by maintaining the accuracy and the relevance with a GRACoL profiled document.

GRACoL helps print buyers, designers, and specifiers work to achieve more effective outcomes with print suppliers, it also creates production efficiencies. By following the GRACoL guidelines and recommendations, you will benefit in the following ways: 

• Achieves quicker turn-around times and avoids re-makes
• Develops internal production guidelines for a reliable process controls
• Sets print predictability: know what you’ll get on press -before you get there
• Demonstrates printing quality through achievable print parameters
• Builds upon the fundamentals of printing technologies

Use of GRACoL profiles streamlines the print process it also helps manage customer outcome expectations upon product delivery. Bottom line, setting up a GRACoL profile according to printer specification for a print job can not only generate better visual outcomes, but it can help your print partner get it to you quicker! That’s a win-win for the print customer! 760 Print is a seasoned, knowledgeable partner who is always seeking techniques that allow us to achieve our ongoing mission of delivering super high quality printed products. Another great resource is our 760 Knowledge Base, quick tips that help streamline your life at work.

If you’d like additional information, check out our link below to Idealliance.

Idealliance is a global industry association representing the visual communications industry, comprised of content and media creators, and their print and digital service providers, material suppliers and technology partners. Serving thousands of member companies employing hundreds of thousands of professionals, Idealliance provides an open and cross-industry platform for motivated professionals to create a more sustaining, competitive, and compelling graphic and visual communications industry. The association capitalizes on its integrated capabilities to advance proven technical and management best practices, deliver best-in-class research, education and certification, and lead a connected community toward innovation and inspiration. More information may be found at www.idealliance.org