Lamont calls for apology over PSO certification claims

The heated PSO debate continues to rage this week after Bob Lamont, chair of TC130 Technical Advisory Group seeks an apology from GASAA’s Garry Knespal.

In an email obtained by Print 21, an angered Lamont raised a number of issues and concerns which can be read below:

Dear Garry,

I would like to believe that you have been misquoted in the numerous online press releases related to the On Demand PSO certification, however, given the frequency of such statements, that desire to believe has disappeared. I refer not to the validity or otherwise of the UGRA certification but to the very disturbing, indeed defamatory statements contained in those releases, one of which follows:

"Garry Knespal has accused some vendors and industry bodies of using colour standards in Australia as a political and commercial football."

It is a well-known fact that there are only two industry bodies, respondent through Standards Australia, to the global ISO Technical Committee 130 - Graphic Technology. One of those is the Lithographic Institute of Australia. It is on behalf of the LIA that I voice strong objection to those statements, which are incorrect and demeaning to an organisation whose members freely give of their time to further the cause of standards-based printing in Australia.

It is of course, not only the LIA that has been smeared by the “innuendo” attributed to you, the "broad church" of the Australian TC 130 and its supporters has been similarly afflicted.

A fulsome [sic] apology is sought and expected.

Yours sincerely,
Bob
Robert G. Lamont FLIA
Executive Officer
Lithographic Institute of Australia (NSW Division)

With a range of opinions that show no signs of wavering, this is shaping up to be one of the most contested and controversial arguments to take place this year in the printing industry.