IDEAlliance, a well known leading certifier of systems, materials and facilities in media production, announces the addition of wide and grand-format inkjet printing systems to its programmes of system validation and certification. This new IDEAlliance Wide/Grand Format Inkjet System Certification Programme certifies original equipment manufacturers’ roll-fed and flatbed large format printing systems to established tolerances for quality and efficiency. Systems are evaluated for printing, production, and application qualities for a specific ink and media combination.
Results of the programme informs prospective and current users of large format technologies on which systems meets their production and market needs, as well as how to achieve consistent quality from their printing systems. Submissions are tested for: Color Accuracy, Color Gamut, Uniformity, Repeatability, Registration, Lightfastness, Printing speed and Ink consumption. In the certificate process, suppliers print test forms according to specified criteria.
