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