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GB/T 19893-2025Digital colour photographic print system (English PDF)

数码彩色扩印系统

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Issued by

SAMR; SAC

Level / Type

National · Recommended

Issue date

August 29, 2025

Implementation date

March 1, 2026

Scope

GB/T 19893-2025 is the English-translated version of 数码彩色扩印系统.

GB/T 19893-2025 is the Chinese national standard covering the minilab that prints digital photographs — the resolution and the colour reproduction, the density and grey balance, the throughput and the format range, the chemistry or the inks and their consumption, and the tests that show one machine prints the same file the same way as the next. It replaces GB/T 19893-2005, under the China Machinery Industry Federation. In force from 1 March 2026. Issued on 29 August 2025, it has been in force since 1 March 2026, replacing GB/T 19893-2005.

Document preview — GB/T 19893-2025

National Standard of the People's Republic of China

ICS
37.040.10
Classification
N 46
Replacing
GB/T 19893-2005

Issued by: State Administration for Market Regulation; Standardization Administration of the PRC

Contents

  • PrefaceIII
  • 1 Scope1
  • 2 Normative references1
  • 3 Terms and Definitions1
  • 4 Technical Requirements2
  • 5 Test methods4
  • 6 General test conditions9
  • 7 Inspection Rules9
  • 8 Marking, packaging, transportation and storage10

Foreword

This document is in accordance with the provisions of GB/T 1.1-2020 "Guidelines for standardization work Part 1: Structure and drafting rules for standardization documents" Drafting.

This document replaces GB/T 19893-2005 "Digital Color Printing System". Compared with GB/T 19893-2005, except for the structural adjustment and In addition to editorial changes, the main technical changes are as follows.

— Added the test chart and calculation formula of the test method "color density uniformity" (see 5.3);

— Added the test chart of the test method "enlargement resolution" (see 5.4);

— Changed the calculation formula of the test method "distortion" (see 5.5, 5.5 of the 2005 edition);

— Deleted the relevant technical requirements and test methods for film scanners (see 4.9 and 5.9 of the 2005 edition);

— Added the calculation formula of the test method "density correction" (see 5.10);

— Added the calculation formula of the test method "color correction" (see 5.11);

— Added the test chart of the test method "grayscale reproduction" (see 5.12);

— Added the test chart for the test method "color reproduction" (see 5.13).

Please note that some of the contents of this document may involve patents. The issuing organization of this document does not assume the responsibility for identifying patents.

This document was proposed by the China Machinery Industry Federation.

This document is under the jurisdiction of the National Technical Committee for Standardization of Photographic Machinery (SAC/TC107).

This document was drafted by: Shanghai Prism 3D Technology Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Photographic Machinery Research Institute Co., Ltd., Beijing Unicolor Technology Co., Ltd.

Technology Development Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Guozhao Testing Technology Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Senyang Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Baibu Yinshe Technology Co., Ltd. company.

The main drafters of this document are: Hou Feng, Ge Shiqing, Xu Jun, Wang Jun, Chen Zhaohui, and Zhang Zhiguo.

The previous versions of this document and the documents it replaces are as follows.

— First issued in 2005 as GB/T 19893-2005;

— This is the first revision. Digital color printing system

1 Scope

This document specifies the technical requirements for digital color printing systems, describes the corresponding test methods, specifies general test conditions, and inspects Rules, marking, packaging, transportation and storage requirements.

This document applies to the design, manufacture and inspection of digital color printing systems that output silver halide photos.

2 Normative references

GB 4943.1-2022

GB/T 10973

GB/T 13384

GB 22449

3 Terms and Definitions

The following terms and definitions apply to this document.

3.1

An operation key that changes the exposure of three colors simultaneously according to a certain ratio.

3.2 Color correction key keyofcorrectingcolor

An operation key that changes the exposure of any (specified) color among the three colors according to a certain proportion.

3.3 Standard gray image standardgreyimage

In a 24-bit color system with 8 bits per color, the brightness of the three colors R, G, and B is 128 for each data image.

3.4

A standard pattern of brightness steps from black to white.

3.5 Print resolution

The resolution of the enlarged photo.

Note. The unit is dots per inch (dpi) or line pairs per millimeter (lp/mm).

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Editions of GB/T 19893

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GB/T 19893-2025Digital color photographic print systemcurrent editionCurrent
GB/T 19893-2005Digital color print systemprevious editionIn force

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