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Blue Star Victoria achieves ISO certification with Heidelberg

Brad Hoffmann, Blue Star, with Neil Pratt and Dierk Wissmann of Heidelberg
 

Heidelberg has worked with Blue Star Group in Victoria to help the company achieve official certification of ISO12647-2 Graphic Technology - Process control for the production of half-tone colour separations, proof and production prints.

Neil Pratt, prepress technical support manager Victoria, says Heidelberg’s certification delivers an independent assessment on processes and officially verifies the site is printing to thei nternational standard.

“We’ve been printing to the ISO standard for the past six years and are confident our processes are robust, but until now we’ve never been independently assessed. Heidelberg is qualified to undertake official ISO audits and we felt it worth our while to attain official certification.”

Dierk Wissmann Heidelberg’s product manager for prepress, CtP and digital, says: “Achieving certification requires all the machinery – CtP, proofer, printing press – to be in proper working order and adjusted for best performance. ISO requires that both proof and press sheets conform, within tolerances, to the values specified in the 12647-2 standard.”

Heidelberg’s ISO certification service is dedicated to the print and proof processes and focuses in particular on achieving reliable print results by combining state-of-the-art technology.

During the Blue Star certification Heidelberg worked closely with Hanno Van Dyke, who Pratt says is the Group’s “key colour management specialist, and knows our processes inside out. We achieved a ten out of ten result in our final assessment which is gratifying for everyone involved,” he concludes. 

 
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