Trying to build a technical advisory group for TC 130 (ISO 12647)

Given below is a list of persons and the text of an email that we sent to them. This is essentially the follow up to our earlier post and an effort to convert the usual wishful thinking and talk talk into some kind of community action. To a large extent I see this blog (to which we will invite a team of experts) and the comments as both a byproduct and an inspiration to the overall quality printing and standardisation movement. We have already received two email responses and one phone call over the last three days. This is obviously not good enough or fast enough. Can blogging help? Will you help?

After the recent Monsoon Summit to discuss ISO 12647 standardisation many participants said that it would be good if the Indian experts also get involved in the ISO TC 130 committee. As Alan Dresch said, "Get inside the tent!" instead of complaining about what is good or bad and contribute to the evolution of the discussion and the standard. To this end we have talked about this with some of the senior people who attended and they seem to agree that it would be best to develop a discussion group that would become the technical advisory group for the TC 130. I am listing below some of the people that we thought could take part in these discussion on a regular basis -- by email, or by telephone and also face to face.

The next meeting of the TC 130 in Beijing is 21 to 25 September and our discussion group or the industry should attend and this discussion group should try and make its views and priorities clear so that whoever attends from India is able to listen and speak on our behalf and also to report to us on the issues, discussions and decisions.

I am making an initial list of persons to start this discussion. It is open to amendment and addition. Please give your views and also whether you agree with the idea or not. The idea is that we should have representation. That the persons attending the TC130 meetings from India should represent an Indian technical advisory group. If the persons attending are not self-supporting in their travel or not supported by their companies, we will have to financially support these trips and participants. My view is also that for the Beijing meeting although the issue of grey balance came up and no one seems much against it, we should for the most part listen at the first meeting we attend. That we should bring back the issues for the consideration of the group and reserve the right to give our views at the next meeting.

Here is the initial list of my nominees and this email is being sent to all of the persons on the list over the next day or so. If you are a nominee please agree or disagree about being a part of this group! Also suggest other names if you like. You can also vote against anyone on this list if you like.

1. Ritu Sharma -- Bureau of Indian Standards, Delhi
2. Vilas Gupte -- AGS Mumbai
3. Vishnu Kamat -- AGS Mumbai
4. Professor Madhura Mahajan -- Pune
5. Rasheed Mistry -- Comart Mumbai
6. Amit Navarange -- CondeNast
7. Sobhagayanidhi Sheksaria -- New Jack Mumbai
8. Ramesh Kejriwal -- Parksons Packaging Mumbai
9. Parksons Grahics -- Animesh Kejriwal Mumbai
10. Rajendrakumar Anayath -- Heidelberg PMA Chennai
11. Satish Nayak -- Bodhi Solutions, Bangalore
12. Nikhil Mittal -- Sona Printers Delhi
14. Ravi Shroff -- Nutech Photolithographers Delhi
15. Vivek Sachdev -- NPT Offset Chennai
16. RB Kashyap -- Thomson Press Faridabad
17. Gurjeet Dhingra -- Canon India -- Delhi
18. Parshav Jain -- IppStar - Noida
19. Anil Joshi -- K Joshi and Sons -- Pune
20. Harsha Paruchuri -- Pragati Offset -- Hyderabad
21. Naresh Khanna -- IppStar -- Noida
22. Arindam Sarkar -- TechNova
23. Tarun Chopra -- Color Dots -- Delhi
24. Vasudevan -- Epson -- Bangalore
25. Sambit Mishra -- EFI
26. Vaidyanathan -- Proteck Chennai
27. Debshish Sengupta - DIC

Best Practices, Colour Management and Standardisation

One of the outcomes of the Monsoon Summit was not only a great indication of interest in standardisation practices and also the need for the Indian print community to "get into the tent." That is, to become a part of the ongoing standards discussion in the TC 130 committee of the ISO. IppStar is initiating with industry help and approval, a local discussion group that will send representatives to the TC 130 committee starting with the meeting in Beijing from 21 to 25 September 2009. This discussion group will also interact with the Bureau of Indian Standards and hopefully evolve into a technical advisory group. If you would like to be part of this discussion please send your email to Parshav Jain at standards@ippgroup.in . In addition we are launching an experts blog on Best Practices, Colour Management, and Standardisation on our website.

We are hoping that this blog will become a how to discussion among experts in India and the Asia Pacific Region that will discuss not only standardisation but other technical issues pertaining to the printing industry. We will also be running two other blogs: the first will be a general and all-inclusive type of discussion called the Print Asia Blog and the second, a publishing blog that takes up some of the professional and 'backroom' issues in publishing' which will be called 'Content and Media -- Asia Pacific.' All the blogs will be team blogs with experts from primarily the Asia Pacific region invited to lead the conversations. If you would like to be invited to be one of the regular team bloggers please write to edit5@ippgroup.in .