This International Standard specifies the list of relevant properties of paper substrates to be communicated between the paper and printing industries.

This International Standard is applicable to papers intended to be printed in rotogravure, cold-set web offset, heat-set web offset, sheet-fed offset, and flexographic printing processes and to proofing substrates.

Where multiple methods exist, the preferred procedure and its International Standard are specified.

All methods for measuring of properties specified in this International Standard are described in other ISO Standards.