Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency fosters printing industry to enhance new quality productive forces (with photos)

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     Sponsored by the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (CCIDA) under the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau, The Hong Kong Printers Association (HKPA) today (November 3) staged an international summit and symposium to discuss the latest developments of printing standardisation and colour management, with a view to enhancing new quality productive forces in the printing industry. Certificates were also presented to 19 printing companies which completed the training and were accredited under the project sponsored by CCIDA.

     CCIDA funded the HKPA to organise the Colour．Method．Master: GBA ReCreates the World's Colour project last year to promote the "Requirements for calculation and application of Colour Tone Value (CTV) in print workflow" (CTV standard), which was steered and composed by the Advanced Printing Technology Centre of the HKPA, and expand the scope of its application through the CTV Pilot Scheme and Production of CTV Characterisation Dataset. The CTV standard was included by the Standardization Research Center for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) in the list of GBA Standards in May 2025, making it the first GBA Standard for printing industry.

     Speaking at the event, the Under Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mr Raistlin Lau, acknowledged the efforts by Hong Kong, as one of the four major printing centres in the world, in contributing to the development of the country's printing industry. He said that Hong Kong has steered the first GBA Standard of printing industry which enables the printing companies in the country to have a more effective printing colour management standard and method of our own, thereby helping improve the printing quality.

     At the CTV Certificate Presentation Ceremony, Mr Lau and Assistant Commissioner for Cultural and Creative Industries Miss Yvonne Ip, presented certificates of "CTV Certified Printer" to 19 printing companies from the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Malaysia which completed the training under the pilot scheme. They will help promote CTV standard in China and overseas.

     Also, the Production of CTV Characterisation Dataset recruited printing companies in the GBA to generate characterisation datasets by using the CTV standard on different printing materials to expand the scope of applications.

     Apart from sharing by CTV certified printers, the Global Printing Standardisation and ICC Colour Symposium today also invited printing experts from the Chinese Mainland, the United States and Germany to introduce the latest developments of printing standardisation and colour management for GBA printing companies to further enhance their productivity and product quality.

     In addition, the ISO/TC 130 39th Working Groups and Plenary Meeting will be held in Hong Kong from tomorrow (November 4) to November 8 with attendance of over 60 experts from around the world with an aim to promote the development and updating of international printing standards. The event is also sponsored by CCIDA.

     For more information on Colour．Method．Master: GBA ReCreates the World's Colour project, please visit www.ctv-aptec.org/colour-method-master/.

Ends/Monday, November 3, 2025
Issued at HKT 20:05

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The Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency under the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau sponsored the Hong Kong Printers Association in staging an international summit and symposium to discuss the latest developments of printing standardisation and colour management today (November 3). Photos shows the Under Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mr Raistlin Lau, speaking at the event.