France to Host April 2026 ISO TC 130 Graphic Technology Meeting
April in Paris
Global Experts’ Work Advances Color and Print Standardization
Lyon, France – July 1, 2025 – France has been confirmed as the host country for the 2026 ISO/TC 130 spring meeting, scheduled for April 2026, in Paris. The announcement was made today by UNIIC, the French graphic industry umbrella organization, and Elie Khoury, Shadow Committee Chair and head of the French Delegation to ISO/TC 130. Khoury is also President of Alwan Color Expertise, based in Lyon.
ISO TC130 is the International Standardization Organization Technical Committee for graphic technology.
“France is proud to welcome the world’s distinguished graphic arts technology experts to Paris,” says Khoury, one of Europe’s most active standards architects and development experts since the 90s. “This spring has signaled renewed momentum in our industry. Despite some challenges in key markets, growth continues; especially in packaging, digital printing, and automation. The April 2026 meeting will be an important opportunity to advance the global standards that underpin our industry’s future.”
The announcement follows last month’s ISO/TC 130 meeting sponsored by ANSI and hosted by X-Rite in Grand Rapids, Michigan; where close to 50 international experts came together to discuss and progress critical industry standards. Key takeaways are highlighted below. A complete accounting of the meeting is available directly from the ISO/TC 130 working group, at https://committee.iso.org/home/tc130.
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Key Takeaways, 2025 Grand Rapids Meeting
Prepress and Data Formats
A new standard, ISO 19593, is being developed to define how production steps—like cutting, folding, and gluing—are stored in PDF files.
The ISO 12642-4 standard is under discussion for extension to 7-color (ECG/multicolor/HiFi) printing.
Offset Process Control
A revision of ISO 12647-2 was unanimously approved and incorporates a compromise on Near Neutral Calibration (NNC), also known as G7 calibration.
A new Unified Characterization Dataset (UCD) for coated paper will soon be available in spectral format.
A project based on the Fogra ISO-Score was introduced, aiming to establish an ISO-standard scoring system for CMYK print image quality.
Color Conformity
ISO 19302 is being revised to reflect best practices in multicolor (Extended Color Gamut – ECG) printing, spectral spot color reproduction, and digital workflows.
ICC and Color Management
Proposals were shared to:
Include spectral data in ICC profiles, and
Support HDR luminance ranges, expanding beyond today’s standard dynamic range.
About Elie Khoury and Alwan Color Expertise
Elie Khoury is the founder and president of Alwan Color Expertise since 1997, as well as the current Shadow Committee Chair and head of the French delegation to ISO TC130 (the International Standardization Organization’s Technical Committee 130 [for graphic technology).
Standards work, in brief
As a standards architect and development expert for over two decades, Khoury has initiated as well as contributed to numerous worldwide standards and specification projects. In addition to multiple editor, co-editor, and contributory roles fulfilled for ISO TC 130; Khoury has been instrumental in establishing global working group initiatives including “Printing Across Borders”.
Khoury is recognized for his work on several standards, including:
- ISO 12647: Process control for conventional printing
- ISO 15339: Printing from digital data across multiple technologies
- ISO/TS 10128: Methods of adjustment of the color reproduction of a printing system to match a set of characterization data
- ISO 18620: Tone Reproduction Curves Adjustment
- ISO 19302: Color conformity of printing workflows
Alwan Color Expertise
At Alwan, President Elie Khoury guides the development of products and technologies that give professionals the critical ability to standardize and control color throughout every stage of production. Alwan’s success in delivering on this vision is marked by Khoury’s drive to go beyond iterative improvement and to instead pursue unprecedented technological approaches to the complex science of color. Achieving these aims — such as Alwan has with its Intertech award-winning Dynamic DeviceLinks technology and Pinnacle award-winning spectral prediction technology, Hydra — has locked Alwan in position as a world leader in color management and standardization technology for commercial, packaging, label, specialty, and textile printing.
Alwan has also released ColorCloud, a low- to no- cost software subscription solution providing professional-level color management tools via the web, ColorCloud was designed to make color management and process control available, understandable, and affordable; thereby yielding optimized turnaround times, accurate and consistent color results, and overall quality and experience improvements.
Today, Alwan provides software, consultancy and training to key players throughout the graphic arts industry, from printers and publishers to software developers and hardware manufacturers. The company also supports university-level color technology programs with donations of its world-renowned applications.
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