Events & Training Calendar

September 13-14, 2010

Workshop Overview

Although color management and process control for toner-based digital presses involves many of the same techniques used for offset presses, the tools for and execution of those techniques can be very different. And while many digital press manufacturers offer training on how to operate their presses, output optimization, and color matching remains a hazy subject.

Total Immersion: Optimizing Color from Your Digital Press is a brand new workshop designed to supply you with a comprehensive look at what it takes to produce reliable, high-quality digital output. The instruction will provide a blend of two intense days of lab instruction and hands-on training to get you totally immersed—and totally knowledgeable—on the subject of digital color and press optimization.

Apply the troubleshooting, benchmarking, and maintenance skills you learn at Total Immersion: Optimizing Color from Your Digital Press to improve color output and consistency, increase production speed while maintaining quality, and build and ensure customer satisfaction.

You Will Learn

1. Digital printing and color management terms, techniques, and practices
2. Standards and specifications—the best ones for digital and how to get there
3. Hands on! How to decipher and assess the Altona Test Suite for color-related issues
4. Hands on! Proper maintenance and calibration toner-based digital printing
5. Delve into the details: All about the color options in DFEs including Creo Spire, EFI Firey, and Xerox DocuSP
6. Step-by-step: How to build an efficient, reliable, consistent color workflow on your DFE
7. Troubleshooting color-related problems including
1. RIP conversion vs. desktop conversion
2. RGB and CMYK. The best ways to handle jobs with mixed color spaces
3. Device link profiles and when they work best
4. Transparency: flatten upstream or downstream?
5. Achieving better spot color match using LUTs

Who Should Attend

1. Digital press operators
2. Prepress technicians
3. Plant managers
4. Printing equipment suppliers and vendors

Workshop Fees

Printing Industries of America Discounted Member Rate $595
Standard Rate $1095

Please visit the Events and Training Calendar to register for this workshop.

Workshop Leaders

Julie Shaffer, Vice President of Digital Technologies, Printing Industries of America
David Zwang, Principal Consultant, Zwang & Company