Ghent Workgroup welcomes CHILI publish as newest member
The Ghent Workgroup represents the entire PDF community including industry associations, vendor and industry members. CHILI publish are now joining as a vendor member and thereby commit to fully supporting and incorporating the Ghent Workgroup Specifications into their solution offering.
As a reputed international community of industry leaders across Europe and the US, the Ghent Workgroup consistently produces numerous process specifications for PDF exchange, and tools for automating processes and testing to establish consistent PDFs.
Just recently the Ghent Workgroup has released its milestone GWG2015 PDF Specification for print and packaging production. Based on ISO PDF/X standards, it describes file settings and workflow processing requirement to achieve the highest quality production and exchange efficiency of PDF files. This is developed by and with the GWG members during several committees, and afterwards implemented throughout their solutions and workflow processes.
Kevin Goeminne, CEO of CHILI publish, comments: “We are really proud to join the Ghent Workgroup who has done some important ground and legwork the past few years to standardize PDF across the industry. We have greatly benefited from their market expertise in the development of our innovative CHILI rendro solution for high-res online rendering of PDF files. The interaction with GWG experts and members has been of great value for the integration of CHILI rendro with other vendor platforms.”
David Zwang, Chairman, Ghent Workgroup, concludes: “With the addition of such important vendors in the graphic arts industry, we have again strengthened the Ghent Workgroup’s position and widened our reach. We strive to engage everyone in the industry to fully comply with our PDF Specifications, workflow validation tools and best practices, from vendor to association to printer and brand owner. This way we can ensure the alignment of quality PDF production and publishing throughout the entire value chain and process.”
About Ghent Workgroup
The Ghent Workgroup, formed in June 2002, is an international assembly of industry associations and suppliers from across Europe and the United States. The Ghent Workgroup’s objective is to establish and disseminate process specifications for best practices in graphic arts workflows.
Since its inception over ten years ago, the organization has consistently produced numerous process specifications for PDF exchange, as well as developing useful tools for automating processes and testing and establishing consistent PDFs for print and publishing – all available free at: www.gwg.org.
Members are comprised of graphic arts associations including: BPIF (UK), CIP4 [Switzerland], CMBO (the Netherlands), ERA (Germany), Febelgra (Belgium), FESPA (UK), FTA (USA), Medibel+ (Belgium), PDFX-ready (Switzerland), Printing Industries of America (USA), UNIC (France) and VIGC (Belgium).
Vendor members include: Adobe, Agfa, callas software, Chili Publish, Dalim Software, EFI, Enfocus, Esko, GMG, Heidelberg, Xerox IMPIKA, Kodak, Océ, Ricoh and Quark.
Industry members are: JP/Politikenhus, Litografia Rosés, PB-Consult, Phototype, Pragmeta, Sagamgraphic and Square. Educational members are: Ryerson University and University of Wuppertal.
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