Success with Standards

Standards generate great economic benefits. For instance, these benefits have been estimated at 16 billion euros a year for Germany alone. Standards promote worldwide trade, encouraging rationalization, quality assurance and environmental protection, as well as improving security and communication. Standards have a greater effect on economic growth than patents or licences.

Standardization is a strategic instrument for economic success. By becoming involved in standards work, businesses can gain a competitive lead through timely access to information and knowledge. They can use this to their own advantage, reducing the risks and costs involved in R&D as well as greatly reducing transaction costs. Standards play a major deregulatory role, relieving the state of the responsibility for developing detailed technical specifications. By referring to standards, legislation is more flexible in adapting to technical advances.

Global Trade

International Standards provide a common technical resource for trade partners throughout the world and help remove technical barriers to trade. Standardization has a positive effect on the entire innovation process, from fundamental research to marketing new products. Standards serve as a knowledge-base and catalyst for innovation.

Access to Global Markets

Using standards and actively participating in standardization helps businesses gain market access for their products and services. Standards are the basis for international success.

Cost Reduction

By using standards, businesses can save enormously in all areas.

Key benefits for your company:

Higher efficiency
Compliance with customer requirements
Reduction of start-up time and materials
Increased confidence in each process and between processes
Improved internal and external communication
Repeatability / consistency
Improved understanding on how different raw materials (paper, ink etc.) affect the result.

Key benefits for your customers:

Confidence in their printer
Predictability of the final product
Consistency between jobs, repeat orders, and when working with several different printers
Improved and more uniform communication between data producer and printer

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