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Product Testing Certification Overview
The following is a brief description on product certification testing procedures at Printing Industries of America. The company will register its product on the CIP4 website. Printing Industries of America will be in contact with you after to further discuss what is needed to certify your product. Once the product becomes available for certification, Printing Industries of America will run write-and-read tests to your product. If your product is only a Manager, then Printing Industries of America will test with only write files—only a Worker, only read files. Finally, if your product is a Manager and a worker, Printing Industries of America will test with both types of files.
The files used in testing are universal for the ICS being tested. They are based on the golden ticket supplied by the individual workgroup. These files have been developed from the individual ICS documents and the specific requirements therein. The test case files have extended these capabilities to ensure that each of the requirements within the tables within the ICS can be appropriately evaluated.
The following ICSs are available—Register Here:
- Layout Creator to Imposition
- MIS to Prepress
- MIS to Conventional Printing—Sheetfed
- Prepress to Conventional Printing
- MIS to Finishing
- Commercial Web: MIS to WebPress ICS
- Newspaper: MIS to WebPress ICS
Published on Friday, November 3, 2006 (updated 05/31/2009)
