Lower Total Area Coverage Is Acceptable and Offers Big Savings, VIGC Finds
“The turnover of the print industry worldwide is estimated at more than €400 billion, so if you apply the lower TAC principle on this level, the savings equates to more than a €1 billion. Plus, being more economical with basic materials in this way would contribute to more sustainable production and would be better for the environment,” Hagen says.
Several VIGC consultants with expertise in different areas worked on the project. Fons Put, senior innovation consultant, relates, “We have aided a lot of printing companies to reach the ISO 12647-standard these past years. For some time, we have included a specially developed test patch in the press trials to look for the optimum black. The experience that we have accrued in all these tests has led to a good idea of what the ‘magic combination’ is.”