BS ISO 2846-1:2017

Foreword
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Test method
5 Requirements for colour, transparency and ink film
  thickness range
Annex A (normative) - Reference substrate
Annex B (informative) - Extended explanation of the test
        procedures, including examples
Annex C (informative) - Spectral data
Annex D (informative) - Tristimulus values for 8 degrees:
        di geometry and illuminant D65
Bibliography

Defines the colour and transparency characteristics that are to be met by each ink in a process colour ink set intended for proof and production printing using offset lithography.

This document specifies the colour and transparency characteristics that are to be met by each ink in a process colour ink set intended for proof and production printing using offset lithography. The specified printing conditions (which use a laboratory printability tester), the defined substrate and a method for testing to ensure conformance are also defined. Characteristics are specified for inks used for sheet-fed, heat-set web and radiation-curing processes.

This document does not apply to fluorescent inks and it does not specify pigments (or spectral characteristics— except informatively) in order not to preclude developments which may enable different pigment combinations to be used advantageously while still achieving the colorimetric requirements specified in this document.