G7 Summit is Live on the Show Floor

IDEAlliance+IPA, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing standards and best practices across the digital media supply chain, is holding its G7 Summit 2010 in conjunction with GRAPH EXPO 2010.

G7, a subgroup within IDEAlliance, is the industry-leading set of best practices for achieving gray balance and is the driving force behind achieving visual similarity across every print process, every time. Presented live from McCormick Place for the duration of GRAPH EXPO, the G7 Summit is a must-attend event for creative, design, premedia and print production professionals. It focuses on the entire workflow, covering all facets of print production, from content creation to final output. In-depth educational sessions, conducted by leading color and digital workflow experts, explore the G7 calibration process and how it compliments today’s digital workflow. Participating manufacturers are offering hands-on Learning Labs to supplement each session.

“Our decision to bring the IDEAlliance G7 Summit to GRAPH EXPO was simple: It’s the right thing do in this economy. It offers people who want to come to both GRAPH EXPO and the G7 Summit an affordable way to maximize their investment and double their benefit,” says Joe Fazzi, VP Print Media at IDEAlliance+IPA. “Creatives, publishers and commercial printers all have the same need, to find ways to integrate their digital workflow for an efficient production process. It’s why they come to GRAPH EXPO—and why IDEAlliance will be here to provide a ‘one-stop shop’ for the information they need now.”

The full spectrum

“Graphic communications professionals count on GRAPH EXPO to showcase new technologies, information and education across the full spectrum of the print production process,” says Ralph Nappi, President of the Graphic Arts Show Company (GASC). “With industry technology evolving—and clients placing ever more demands on their graphic communications service providers—it’s become all the more crucial for print production professionals to understand just which technologies and processes they’ll need to ensure a quality product for their clients every time. With the G7 Summit being co-located with GRAPH EXPO, we’re able to offer the guidance attendees are seeking to be successful in the high-quality, quick-turnaround environment that is today’s printing industry.”

About IDEAlliance

IDEAlliance (International Digital Enterprise Alliance) is a not-for-profit membership organization that merged with the International Prepress Association (IPA). Retaining the IDEAlliance name, the new entity brings together the knowledge and experience of more than 5,500 professionals from almost 500 companies to advance the core technologies to develop standards and best practices that enhance efficiency and speed information across the end-to-end digital media supply chain—creation, production, management, and delivery of knowledge-based multimedia content—digitally and in print. IDEAlliance members represent a convergence of the leading brand owners, agencies, publishers, printers, materials suppliers and solution providers. IDEAlliance provides a user-driven, cross-industry, and open environment in which its members can strategize, innovate, standardize, and implement solutions to real business challenges in eMedia-based publishing. Learn more about IDEAlliance+IPA at www.idealliance.org or www.ipa.org.