the Ghent Workgroup (GWG) - well known for its ISO PDF/X-standard - has released A new GWG specification 2022, hoping to make Prepress life easier.

As of yesterday March 30th 2022, the Ghent Workgroup (GWG) has released their new and major GWG specification 2022, hoping to make Prepress life easier.

The last major release already dated from 2015, and since then, separate efforts took place for specific market segments such as Sign & Display, Digital Print and Packaging.

The GWG 2022 specification now takes all this into consideration by introducing new innovations on a new, streamlined, specification format.

· Cutting down on false positives ·

According to David van Driessche, Executive Director of the Ghent Workgroup and CTO at Four Pees: “The major novelty in GWG 2022 is the possibility to improve preflight results by cutting down false positives – preflight errors that are reported but really shouldn’t be because they would never cause production problems. Over the last years, several vendors created technology designed to cut back on the number of false positives during preflight. The GWG 2022 specification makes it possible for such technology to be used and defines the rules. This means that a preflight using GWG 2022 compliant profiles focusses on those files that really would cause problems.“

… “a preflight using GWG 2022 compliant profiles allows you to focus on those files that really would cause problems.”

For more information about the new 2022 specification visit their website:

https://gwg.org/technical-specifications/gwg-2022-specifications/

The GWG 2022 specification spreadsheet is freely available.

Sources:

The Ghent Workgroup (GWG) - https://gwg.org