Using colour management as a competitive and profitable tool will underpin the industry messages from one of Europe’s leading colour management experts during a series of dinner meetings in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane during February 2009.
The Head of Fogra’s Prepress Division, Andreas Kraushaar, will be the guest speaker at the dinners organised by the Australian TC130, a joint venture of the Printing Industries Association of Australia and the Lithographic Institute of Australia, promoting the implementation of international standards into the Australian market as a means of ensuring that our industry can compete on a global basis.Fogra is known to printers and graphic reproducers around the world and is arguably the most authoritative technical body serving the print and graphic arts industry. It has an annual research budget in excess of 5m Euro, and is in the forefront of technical excellence, according to Printing Industries.
Fogra has four basic areas of interest: Research and Development; Knowledge Transfer and Further Education; Consultancy, Testing and Control Devices and Committee work and Standardisation.
Kraushaar has a masters degree in media technology from the Technical University, llmenau. He is also completing a doctoral degree from Aachen University. Kraushaar was also a visiting researcher at the Munsell Colour Science laboratory in 2004.
As the Prepress Department Head of Fogra he is responsible for research in the fields of colour management, pre flighting production data and contract colour proofing. He is also responsible for Fogra seminars focussed on colour management and related topics.
Kraushaar was recently appointed Convenor of ISO TC130’s Working Group 3 (Process Control) and in this role he leads the Global ISO challenge to bring Standards based printing to the worldwide industry.
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