Printing Foundations:
A Decision Maker's Symposium |
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| Location: Madren Conference Center, Clemson, SC |
| Coordinator: Duane Woolbright, duanew@clemson.edu |
| Next Offering: March 5-6, 2008 |
| Registration Fee |
| Individuals $495 |
| Multiple registrations (3+) $450 |
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| Registration includes two continental breakfasts, two lunches and an evening social gathering. |
| Register Now! |
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| Symposia Overview |
Printing professionals are faced with making high dollar decisions that affect their company's productivity and profitability. During this 2-day symposium attendees will gain the technical basics essential for making smarter and more effective print decisions. Program topics will be suitable for professionals from digital, flexographic, gravure, lithographic, and screen printing process. Breakout sessions will accommodate these process specific issues and fundamentals.
While this symposium is suitable for professionals that are at a beginner or intermediate level, those who are completely new to printing will find this two-day investment to be of immeasurable value by enabling them to confidently interact with the technical professionals they contact on a daily basis. Likewise, more experienced professionals will learn methods for making their process more consistent, predictable, and cost efficient by working within a controlled production system. |
| Breakout Sessions |
These concurrent sessions will accomodate specific issues including:
- Digital
- Flexography
- Screen Printing
- Lithography
- Gravure
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| Symposium Instructors |
| Topics will be presented primarily by expert faculty from Clemson's Department of Graphic Communications as well as practitioners from various industry segments. Dr. Page Crouch, Clemson Professor Emeritus, will be moderating. |
| Who Should Attend? |
Beginner and intermediate level print production managers as well as sales/customer service managers and professionals in all the major printing processes including those:
- Wishing to renew and improve their technical print knowledge
- New to a decision making role
- New to a specific printing process
- Looking to enter another segment of the printing industry |
| Schedule |
Wednesday, March 5
Madren Conference Center, Clemson University |
| 8:30 am |
Registration begins and continental breakfast |
| 9:00 am |
Welcome |
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Graphics Terminology
Description of the graphic elements encountered each day in the printing industries |
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Printing 101: The Printing Processes
Technical explanations of flexographic, lithographic, screen printing, gravure, and digital printing processes |
| Noon |
Lunch |
| 1:00 pm |
Controlling Printability in Your Process
Using process specific breakout sessions, presenters will explain how the individual elements of the printing process affect the outcome of the print |
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Color 101
Presentations provide a better understanding of how we see color; elements that affect color; process color; and how to measure and control the color that you print |
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Demonstrations of printing technologies and process control equipment in the GC laboratories |
| 6:00 pm |
Social Gathering |
Thursday, March 6
Madren Conference Center, Clemson University |
| 8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 am |
Know Your Printing Capabilities
Presentations centered on methods to determine your printing capabilities and how to use the information to print within a controlled system |
| Noon |
Lunch (provided) |
| 1:00 pm |
Communicating "Experiences"
Discussion of methods for communicating print capabilities to the customer and how to ensure customer understanding of your production needs and policies. Session includes a panel discussion with expert practitioners from the industry |
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Making it Work
Case studies and Q&A by printers who follow a systems approach to printing
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Developing New Products and Markets
Explanation of methods for creative idea generation and product evaluation followed by an ideation exercise |
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A New Generation of Graphics and A New Generation In the Workforce
Presentation on building relationships with those inside and outside of your organization and how to work effectively with new generation graphic needs and a new generation
workforce |
| 5:00 pm |
Program Wrap-up and Adjournment |
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