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What numeric total ink coverage, line width and image resolution limits are publicly documented for GWG 2022 print handoff, and where is the normative text?

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The GWG 2022 specification itself is member-only. The public numbers come from callas profiles labelled 'Based on GWG 2022'. The SheetCMYK CMYK profile flags total ink of 320% or more (over 15 mm), thin multicolour or white lines under 0.25 pt, colour images at or below 149 ppi (149-224 potentially insufficient) and 1-bit images at or below 549 ppi (549-799 potentially insufficient), plus overprint and DeviceGray checks on thin black lines under 2 pt. The Digital Print profile uses 95 ppi (95-149) and 349 ppi 1-bit (349-599), the same 0.25 pt line rules, and no ink-coverage rule. These are one vendor's encodings, not the normative text. Curator qualifications: Profiles read 2026-10-22; no preflight run. Normative GWG text not available (member-only). Vendor PDFs and webinar text carried from producer reading. Limitations: Profiles read 2026-10-22; no preflight run. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://gwg.org/resources/specifications/",
      "note": "callas ccapi-sample GWG_2022/SheetCMYK_CMYK.kfpx (curator readback = pin) rule names; producer copy work/k_Digital_Print.kfpx sha256 a7da2f8f = pin rule names"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://gwg.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/callas-GWG-2022-preflight-profiles-v2-2.pdf",
      "note": "callas ccapi-sample GWG_2022/SheetCMYK_CMYK.kfpx (curator readback = pin) rule names; producer copy work/k_Digital_Print.kfpx sha256 a7da2f8f = pin rule names"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://gwg.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Enfocus-PreflightProfiles-19dec2025-3.pdf",
      "note": "callas ccapi-sample GWG_2022/SheetCMYK_CMYK.kfpx (curator readback = pin) rule names; producer copy work/k_Digital_Print.kfpx sha256 a7da2f8f = pin rule names"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://gwg.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GWG-on-PDFX-1a-and-4-v3.pdf",
      "note": "callas ccapi-sample GWG_2022/SheetCMYK_CMYK.kfpx (curator readback = pin) rule names; producer copy work/k_Digital_Print.kfpx sha256 a7da2f8f = pin rule names"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://help.callassoftware.com/m/pdftoolbox/l/1573764-predefined-profiles",
      "note": "callas ccapi-sample GWG_2022/SheetCMYK_CMYK.kfpx (curator readback = pin) rule names; producer copy work/k_Digital_Print.kfpx sha256 a7da2f8f = pin rule names"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/ccapi-sample/Profiles/GWG_2022/SheetCMYK_CMYK.kfpx",
      "note": "callas ccapi-sample GWG_2022/SheetCMYK_CMYK.kfpx (curator readback = pin) rule names; producer copy work/k_Digital_Print.kfpx sha256 a7da2f8f = pin rule names"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/ccapi-sample/Profiles/GWG_2022/Digital_Print.kfpx",
      "note": "callas ccapi-sample GWG_2022/SheetCMYK_CMYK.kfpx (curator readback = pin) rule names; producer copy work/k_Digital_Print.kfpx sha256 a7da2f8f = pin rule names"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220715101246id_/https://www.pdfa.org/presentation/the-ghent-workgroup-2022-specifications/",
      "note": "callas ccapi-sample GWG_2022/SheetCMYK_CMYK.kfpx (curator readback = pin) rule names; producer copy work/k_Digital_Print.kfpx sha256 a7da2f8f = pin rule names"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] The GWG 2022 specification itself is member-only. The public numbers come from callas profiles labelled 'Based on GWG 2022'. The SheetCMYK CMYK profile flags total ink of 320% or more (over 15 mm), thin multicolour or white lines under 0.25 pt, colour images at or below 149 ppi (149-224 potentially insufficient) and 1-bit images at or below 549 ppi (549-799 potentially insufficient), plus overprint and DeviceGray checks on thin black lines under 2 pt. The Digital Print profile uses 95 ppi (95-149) and 349 ppi 1-bit (349-599), the same 0.25 pt line rules, and no ink-coverage rule. These are one vendor's encodings, not the normative text. · locator: callas ccapi-sample GWG_2022/SheetCMYK_CMYK.kfpx (curator readback = pin) rule names; producer copy work/k_Digital_Print.kfpx sha256 a7da2f8f = pin rule names source

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component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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