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| Advanced Techniques in Flexography |
| Course Outline and Schedule |
| Day 1 - Begin 9:00 |
| Building, Preparing, and Running a Banded Anilox Press Test |
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Getting measurable results |
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Designing for variables of interest |
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Screening methods |
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Pressroom preparations |
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Pressroom practices |
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| Day 2 - Begin 8:30 |
| Evaluating the Press Test |
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Matching substrate, anilox, and graphics for success |
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Densitometery practices |
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Objective evaluation of density, dot gain, minimum and maximum dot |
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Subjective evaluation of printing performance |
| Compensation Techniques |
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Dot gain compensation |
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Prepress workflow |
| Imagesetting, Plateroom, and Press Preparation |
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Process control techniques |
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Process optimization |
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Taking a custom calibrated job through the system |
| Communication and Documentation of Results |
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| Day 3 - Begin 8:30 |
| Process Color Reproduction Foundations |
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Additive and subtractive color theory |
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GCR and UCR |
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Steps for color separation: tone reproduction, gray balance, and color correction |
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Introduction to CIE LAB and color gamuts |
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Spectrophotometery vs. Densitometery |
| Building and Running a 4-Color Process Press Characterization/Fingerprint |
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Elements required and purpose |
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Process control targets and use |
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Documenting and testing variables |
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Pressroom practices |
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| Day 4 - Begin 8:30 |
| Evaluating the 4 Color Press Test |
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Tone reproduction, Gray balance, Print Contrast, Minimum and Maximum Dots, Ink Limits, Overprint Trapping, Registration Traps |
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Documenting printing conditions for process control |
| Running a Custom Process Color Job Using Test Information |
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Applying press test compensations |
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Image capture and evaluation |
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RGB to CMYK conversion |
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Digital proofing |
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Digital platemaking |
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Pressroom preparations |
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| Day 5 - End 11:30 |
| Pressroom Practices |
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Implementing process control |
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Communicating results |
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Final job completion |
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