International Newspaper Color Quality Club (INCQC)

Be part of the Newspaper Printing Elite

Registration for the following competition begins in summer 2011. For more information contact Roland Thees (see right column).

Categories

The creation of additional categories opens up the competition for the first time in 2010 also to newspapers that work with heatset or UV or that are printed by a process other than coldset-offset and, instead of newsprint, for example, use SC, LWC or tinted paper. This takes due account also of the growing trend towards semi-commercial production.

1: Coldset on Newsprint
2: Heatset/UV on Newsprint
3: Heatset/UV on SC or LWC paper
4: Extra Category for Flexo, Digital and Colorized Paper

Awarded membership

All those newspapers that show they can produce within the tolerances specified in the instructions and present an overall good printing quality will be welcomed into the exclusive INCQC. Achieving a predefined number of points is decisive for success.

Your Benefits

The advertising effectiveness of a certified Club membership is very powerful. International, national and local advertisers can be convinced by testifying a high production quality and keeping the rigorous ISO-standards over a longer period. Your newspaper proves the competitiveness to other media.

Meeting and exceeding your customers’ expectations with regards to print quality.
Benchmarking your color quality against well-defined standards by participating in the only worldwide newspaper print quality competition.
Receiving a detailed audit, which highlights areas of strength as well as areas of potential improvement, including the identification of printing defects.
Providing motivation and justification to staff members for the introduction of required changes.
Receiving powerful marketing tools for extended business and convincing customers
Proven and verified color quality in daily production by keeping demanding standards
Testified general printing quality, evaluated under “typical reader conditions”, so the reader obtains a high-quality and attractive product

Free download:
International Newspaper Color Quality Club book 2008-2010

Instructions and downloads (2010 - 2012)

Instructions and other downloads for the participants of the 2010 - 2012 competition are still available below.

Instructions, English (INCQC_2010_Instructions_E_091214.pdf, 1065 kb)

Cuboid - scaleable (Cuboid_scaleable_04_Apr2010.pdf, 116 kb)

Cuboid - non scaleable (Cuboid_non_scaleable_04_Apr2010.pdf, 118 kb)

Registermark (Registermark.eps, 120 kb)

INCQC Logo 2010-2012 (WANIFRA_INCQC_logo_HiRes.pdf, 447 kb)