Digital Presses, "Can Do, How To", Matching Conventional Work (Seminar Session) (R5)

Fee: $125 (counts as 1 seminar towards a Value Package Plan) View Pricing

Speaker: David Hunter

Description:

Everyone wants to use a digital press for EVERYTHING—short run production, on-demand printing, sometimes proofing…and the list goes on. But how do you control the color in order to “integrate” a digital press with your organization’s needs? Ideally, it must align with your other output devices so that they can share the visual appearance. While aligning is fairly easy, the “hard part” is KEEPING the press aligned to this targeted condition. Find out how.

Room S405ab 

You Will Learn:

• Fundamentals required to control color on your digital press, determining tolerance and press capabilities
• Options for controling color on a digital press to match a conventional press
• Different ways to verify a digital press is matching a conventional press—and if not, how to fix it
• How to more effectively match spot colors on a digital press
• How to determine if a separate proof is required to show what output on digital press will look like

Who Should Attend:
Anyone thinking about using a digital press: Prepress Personnel, Plant Supervisors, Marketing Directors, Designers, Color Managers, Print Sales Personnel

Business Categories:
Color Management, Design/Creative, Digital Media, Digital Presses, Pre-Media, Production, Proofing

David Hunter, Principal
Pilot Marketing Group

David Hunter has been helping companies control and manage their color for over 20 years, primarily in the Graphic Arts and Photography market places. He has been teaching the 5 day Implementing Color Management Course at the PIA/GATF Graphic Arts Technical Foundation since its inception in 1996, and the Advanced Color Management Course since 1997. He is also the Project manager for the IDEAlliance/IPA Color Management Certification program, the first program available on the Internet to teach and certify professionals on Color Control topics. He was one of the original GRACoL G7 Experts and has been on the GRACoL committee since 2001. David has researched all of the Color Management Profiling software programs as well as all of the measurement devices on the market. He has an extensive background in how all the major desktop and workflow applications work with ICC Profiles and has helped numerous companies implement color control products and procedures. His lectures and seminars are very interactive, with a lot of actual, hands on usage of building and applying ICC Profiles. If you are attempting to transition to digital color, his seminars will help illuminate the process and help you understand the tools that are available to save you weeks and months of trial and error during your transition. His company, Pilot Marketing Group is set up to be the G7/ISO resource for consultants and dealers across North America.
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Pilot Marketing Group
Your VAR source for ICC Color Control Solutions
263 Palomino
Lino Lakes, MN 55014
david@pilotmarketing.com
651.717.0590
Fax: 305.9325
Orders: 800.91.PILOT