ISO 2846-1:2017规定了使用胶印技术进行校样和生产印刷的彩色油墨组中每种油墨应满足的颜色和透明度特性。还规定了规定的印刷条件（使用实验室印刷适性测试仪）、规定的基材和确保一致性的测试方法。规定了单张纸、热定型卷筒纸和辐射固化工艺所用油墨的特性。 ISO 2846-1:2017不适用于荧光油墨，也没有规定颜料（或光谱特性？信息性除外），以避免妨碍在仍达到本文件规定的色度要求的情况下有利地使用不同颜料组合的发展。

ISO 2846-1:2017 specifies the colour and transparency characteristics that are to be met by each ink in a process colour ink set intended for proof and production printing using offset lithography. The specified printing conditions (which use a laboratory printability tester), the defined substrate and a method for testing to ensure conformance are also defined. Characteristics are specified for inks used for sheet-fed, heat-set web and radiation-curing processes. ISO 2846-1:2017 does not apply to fluorescent inks and it does not specify pigments (or spectral characteristics?except informatively) in order not to preclude developments which may enable different pigment combinations to be used advantageously while still achieving the colorimetric requirements specified in this document.