Drafting Work on 6 Green Printing Industry Standards Kicks Off

[ppzhan Abstract] In today's world of continuously growing environmental awareness, green printing has become a hot spot in the development of the printing industry. Recently, the drafting work for the "six series of industry standards for green printing" was officially launched.

On March 3-4, the National Technical Committee for Printing Standardization held the founding meeting of the drafting group for the "six series of industry standards for green printing" at the Beijing Dafang Hotel, launching the drafting and formulation of six industry standards: "General Technical Requirements and Evaluation Methods for Green Printing", "Sampling and Sample Preparation Methods for Green Printing Products", "Criteria for Conformity Assessment of Green Printing Products - Part 1: Primary and Secondary School Textbooks", "Criteria for Conformity Assessment of Green Printing Products - Part 2: Reading Printed Matter", "Terminology for Green Printing" and "Standard System Table for Green Printing".

More than 50 experts and technical personnel attended the meeting, from units including the Publication Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Center of the General Administration of Press and Publication, the National Printing and Decoration Products Quality Supervision and Inspection Center, the National Paper Products Quality Supervision and Inspection Center, Heshan Astros Printing Co., Ltd., People's Education Press Co., Ltd., the Jiangsu Provincial Publication Quality Supervision and Inspection Center, Shandong Quanlin Paper Co., Ltd., Anhui Xinhua Printing Co., Ltd., UPM (China) Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Jinjia Color Printing Group Co., Ltd., Beijing Shengtong Printing Co., Ltd., Shanghai Tobacco Packaging Printing Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Polytechnic, the School of Printing of Qufu Normal University, Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, Beijing Zhongda Huayuan Certification Center, Beijing Dacheng Xinhua Certification Consulting Co., Ltd., the Printing Technology Association of China, the Beijing Printing Association, the Beijing Printing Industry Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Station, Fuji Xerox (China) Co., Ltd., the China Quality Certification Center, Shanghai Zhonghua Printing Co., Ltd., Tianjin Toyo Ink Co., Ltd., Guangdong Zhongshan Youwei Printing Equipment Co., Ltd., Zhuhai Special Economic Zone Hongta Renheng Paper Co., Ltd., Beijing Zhongrong Security Printing Company, Beijing Dingjia Century Printing Co., Ltd., and Beijing Kangdexin Functional Materials Co., Ltd.

The meeting focused on the drafting and formulation of the six series of green printing standards, and the six standards were discussed in groups.

At the group meetings, the participating experts carefully discussed the framework, structure, content and related technical indicators of the standards, and determined the drafting units and writers of the standards. The meeting decided after study to change the name of the "Sampling and Sample Preparation Methods for Green Printing Products" standard to "Sampling Methods and General Rules for Sample Preparation for Green Printing Products"; considering the particularity of the printing and product requirements of primary and secondary school textbooks, and to facilitate the use of the standard, it was decided to list primary and secondary school textbook printed matter separately and to change the name of the "Criteria for Conformity Assessment of Green Printing Products - Part 1: Primary and Secondary School Textbooks" standard to "Green Printing (Quality) Requirements and Inspection Methods for Primary and Secondary School Textbooks", to apply for a national standard project and withdraw it from the six series of industry standards for green printing; and to change the name of the "Criteria for Conformity Assessment of Green Printing Products - Part 2: Reading Printed Matter" standard to "Criteria for Conformity Assessment of Green Printing Products - Part 1: Reading Printed Matter".

The meeting determined that the drafting group for the five series of industry standards for green printing would complete the first draft of the drafting group's draft before April 5, 2014. The first working meeting of the drafting group is tentatively scheduled for the end of April 2014, with the meeting venue preliminarily set in Beijing.

——This article is reprinted from China Packaging Network (pack.cn). Original link: http://news.pack.cn/show-361817.html