G7® Master Qualifications
The benefits of being a G7 Master Facility are simple. When your printing is consistent, it helps maintain the integrity of your customers’ brand, increases customer satisfaction, and turns customers into repeat customers. Print buyers actively seek out companies like yours that are G7 certified by PRINTING United Alliance. And costs will go down because a G7 Master Facility has reduced production costs, including paper waste, ink consumption, make-ready, associated with getting up to color with implementation and production driven by G7.
G7 Benefits
- Provide a consistent neutral print density across print production, including low dynamic range systems like textiles, newsprint, and industrial printing.
- Provide highly precise ICC profile accuracy, including high-density print technologies and richly saturated colors such as in inkjet printing.
- Target SCCA (Substrate-Corrected-Colorimetric Aims) for gray balance compliance across a wide range of paper and substrate types, and white points.
A G7 Master Facility Qualification Indicates Superior Capabilities
Only G7 Master printers are recognized through PRINTING United Alliance certification directory and bear the G7 Master printer badge as leading print service providers for brands and print buyers around the world. Print buyers and brands utilize this global directory to locate leading print providers, and demand their print providers are G7 Master Qualified. G7 Masters also share their status as a leading G7 Master printer with a digital badge and certificate to win jobs, meet customer expectations, and maintain clients.
Demonstrate your facility’s superior capabilities in color management, device alignment, and standardization to serve the global print and packaging supply chains. Earn your company G7 Master Qualification today!
How to Become a G7 Master Facility
- Have an employee become a PRINTING United Alliance Certified G7 Expert or have Certified G7 Expert visit your print facility.
- He or she will conduct and review your calibration data.
- Your certified G7 Expert will submit an online application and print verification that is submitted to the Alliance’s independent 3rd party analysis lab.
- Once approved, your G7 Master Facility Qualification will be granted.
What G7 Compliance Level is Right for Your Business?
Pricing and Fees
G7 Master Program Fees
New G7 Master Submission
Application Fee – $800 (per facility)
Grayscale or Targeted Compliance – $100*
Colorspace Compliance – $150*
*(per device, based on compliance submitted)
Renewal G7 Master Submission
Application Fee – $550 (per facility)
Grayscale or Targeted Compliance – $100*
Colorspace Compliance – $150*
*(per device, based on compliance submitted)
- Each facility qualification requires a new application or renewal application and a minimum of one (1) device compliance.
- Qualification and Compliance Levels (Grayscale/Targeted/Colorspace) will be noted in the database listing.
- Additional Qualification Types, Failed, or Resubmitted sheets are charged per Qualification Type, Grayscale/Targeted ($100) or Colorspace ($150).
- Custom targets are charged per target or reference submitted ($50 each).
- Good for one year. Requires annual renewal by a Certified G7 Expert or G7+ Expert within 90 days of qualification expiration.
- G7 Expert consulting fees may be additional, negotiated with, and paid to the G7 Expert. See your G7 Expert.