Print Professional Training Program

Modern print shop management optimizes work processes. Learn about and apply new solutions - for faster production, more faithful color reproduction and more efficient work!

Excerpt from the training program

Organization
- Planning and management of print jobs, production monitoring

From idea to PDF
- Use of FreeHand, Illustrator, QuarkXPress and InDesign
- Editing images with Photoshop
- The possibilities and effects of different typefaces
- Color as a design element
- Digital photography
- Data formats and how to use them Prepress workflow and platemaking

Prepress workflow systems and RIP technologies
- Digital imposition with Prinect Signa Station
- CtF technology: mounting films
- CtP technology: CtP plates and imagers
- Saving and archiving production data

Printing technology
- Besides single- and two-color presses, a Speedmaster SM 74-4+L with CP 2000, Image Control and a coating system is used.
- A Quickmaster QM DI 46-4 is used to teach the theory and practice of digital offset printing.
- Setting of paper travel for different stocks
- Basic adjustments of dampening and inking units
- Conventional and automatic plate clamping bars
- Introduction to the Prinect CP 2000 control system

Quality control in offset printing
- Quality standards, standardization, ISO 12647
- Densitometry and colorimetry basics
- Using measurement equipment to assess press sheets
- Print Image Control: measurement and control on the four-color press

Press peripherals
- Air compressors, vacuum pumps, inking unit temperature control, dryer systems
- Inline coating, aqueous coatings, matt and glossy spot coating

Finishing in theory and practice
- Finishing operations and production equipment
- Using Compucut to program the cutting machine with prepress data

Cost management and pricing
- Pricing basics
- Pricing and job preparation with Prinect Prinance
- Costing and invoicing