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The drafting work for the national environmental-protection printing standard is planned to be completed in two phases, with priority given to finishing the first-phase drafting plan. To this end, the China Printing Technology Association has asked large and medium-sized printing enterprises to actively support the drafting of the national environmental-protection printing standard. Printing plants taking part in the drafting work fall into two categories — "standard co-drafting units" and "standard collaborating units" — and printing enterprises may choose freely on a voluntary basis. The introduction of the national environmental-protection printing standard will be China's printing

It is understood that the vast majority of carton manufacturers, when carrying out ISO9001:2000 quality management system certification, completely delete clause 7.3 on the grounds that no "design and development" element exists in their organization. The author believes that this practice is inappropriate. 1. Deleting the design and development clause reduces the organization's ability to provide customers with satisfactory products. As an organization, as long as there is hardware production, there must be corresponding software support. Therefore, ISO

Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Commerce jointly issued the "Notice on the Catalogue of Encouraged Imported Technologies and Products (2009 Edition)". The notice points out that, in order to actively expand the import of advanced technologies, key equipment and components, and important resource-based products and raw materials, the Catalogue of Encouraged Imported Technologies and Products (2009 Edition) has been formulated in accordance with the work arrangements of the State Council. The notice takes effect as of the date of its issuance, and the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Commerce's "Regarding

Color and density measurement are common methods for controlling reproduction quality in printing. However, for an image, these related test methods cannot replace the human eye's final evaluation of the color reproduction result. In print reproduction, we mainly compare the reproduced image with various graphic originals to judge the degree of color reproduction fidelity. For example, to evaluate the color quality of a reproduced color image, a commonly used method is to compare these images with an original

Industry Standard of the People's Republic of China — Offset Resin Printing Ink QB/T 1866-93 1 Subject content and scope of application This standard specifies the product classification, technical requirements, test methods, inspection rules and marking, packaging, transportation and storage of offset resin printing inks. This standard is applicable to offset resin printing inks used on single-color, double-color or multi-color offset presses. The ink is used for printing images, trademarks and the like on offset paper and various other printing papers. 2 Referenced stand

This standard specifies the types, technical requirements, test rules, and marking, packaging, transport and storage of new water-based inks for flexographic printing. This standard applies to water-based inks produced from water-soluble resins as the main raw material with the addition of pigments, fillers and additives through compound grinding; the products can be widely used in flexographic and gravure printing for printing and packaging in fields such as food, tobacco and alcohol, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and children's toys. 2. Referenced standards Contained in the following standards

Proposed by the General Administration of Press and Publication and administered by the National Printing Standardization Technical Committee, the national standard GB/T 17934.3 "Graphic technology — Process control for the production of half-tone colour separations, proofs and production prints — Part 3: Coldset offset lithography on newsprint" was jointly drafted and formulated by the Printing Working Committee of the China Newspaper Association, the China Printing Science and Technology Research Institute, the People's Daily Printing Plant, the PLA Daily Printing Plant, the Jiefang Daily Printing Plant, the Yangcheng Evening News Printing Plant

On 9 November 2009, SAC/TC170 held in Beijing the third working meeting of the drafting group for the national standard plan project "Printing Technology — Colour and Transparency of Four-Colour Printing Inks — Part 1: Sheet-Fed and Heatset Web Offset Lithographic Inks", with attendees from Tianjin Toyo Ink Co., Ltd., Hanghua Ink Chemical Co., Ltd., Gold East Paper (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd., Artron Enterprise (Group) Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Haichuan Colour Technology Co., Ltd., and Beijing Institute of Graphic Communi

According to a report from the tobacco authority, against the backdrop of growing public concern over the safety, hygiene and environmental requirements of consumer goods, the State Tobacco Administration issued a mandatory industry standard on solvent residue limits for tobacco packaging — "Limits of Volatile Organic Compounds in Cigarette Carton and Box Packaging Paper" — and, for the implementation of these limits, formulated the corresponding testing method: "YC/T207-2006 Determination of Volatile Organic Compounds in Cigarette Carton and Box Packaging Paper — Headspace-Gas Chromatography

Under the dual pressure of stringent EU regulations and the financial crisis, exporting companies must exercise strict control when selecting packaging material manufacturers, choosing wherever possible packaging materials that are low-risk, highly safe and environmentally sound, and must understand their production processes: after printing, the solvents in the ink must be completely volatilized, the ink must be thoroughly cured, and the corresponding industry standards must be met. Before using packaging bags, companies may also send packaging materials to qualified laboratories at inspection and quarantine institutions for conformity verif