Smart Solutions to Improve Productivity and Shorten Turnarounds

An idle press can chew up your profits. Feed your press a steady diet of efficient, error-free jobs. You already know lost time in make-readies, color management, and routine tasks can lead to costly press downtime and strain your ability to hit ever shortening turn-around demands. Smart software is an easy first step to improve productivity and accuracy in prepress. Compliment this with clear process control procedures (for prepress into the pressroom) and implementing clean methods for improved color management to improve your success with implementing G7® and n-color process printing.

This seminar aims to demonstrate how you can leverage simple Adobe® Illustrator® plug-ins, dynamic tools, automation and intelligent prepress software solutions to improve your production flow from prepress to platemaking and into the press room.  We also explore process control essentials and systems for enhanced process color printing, such as G7® and Expanded Gamut Printing. Integrating solutions that will drive profitability in the packaging and print supply chain is at the core of what Esko and APR strive to provide.

Come and learn the best ways to keep “Feeding the Beast!”  

Seminar Topics

This half-day seminar is offered once for each location. Each seminar will cover the following:

The Production Cycle: 
Walk through the production cycle for three sample products (label and shrink, folding carton, and bag). See how to best leverage your software to have the greatest impact on productivity and profitability.

Prepress in Adobe® Illustrator®: 
DeskPack is a collection of packaging prepress plugins for Adobe® Illustrator® and Adobe® Photoshop®. Using Esko’s pre-production knowledge and 3D tools, see how you can boost productivity and reduce errors while working in your favorite design application.

Prepress Automation: 
Learn ways to work faster while reducing costs and errors. An automated workflow greatly enhances quality assurance. Operators, CSRs and admin staff are able to detect errors early in the workflow, increasing overall quality, avoiding expensive mistakes and reducing costs.

Enhanced Process Color Printing:
Review the Process Control essentials for successful implementation of G7® and 7-Color Process Printing. We will discuss how these methods can help streamline pressroom production turnarounds, while elevating your print quality and consistency

Technology Spotlights: 
The session will conclude with a brief discussion about ColorDyne 3600 Series Retrofit, an inline digital 5-color print solution for your flexo press. We will discuss the pros and cons, and how you can best harness this technology to take your operation to the next level.

Target Audience
This seminar is directed at prepress professionals, graphics/prepress managers and owners who want to learn more about software tools to improve their current workflow.