| 8:00 to 8:30 |
Conference Registration and Continental Breakfast
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| 8:30 to 9:10 |
Update on digital flexo technology
- A discussion about the different methods to include mask ablation, laser engraving and inkjet.
- Review of quality and production differences between conventional and digital processes.
- Evaluation of digital plate quality analyses
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| 9:10 to 9:50 |
Press Components
- Optimizing your press components for digital plate technology.
- The correlation between anilox rolls, ink film thickness and digital plates.
- How to best optimize you ink delivery system for running digital plates.
- How to best see the benefits on press of printing with digital plates.
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| 9:50 to 10:05 |
15 minute break
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| 10:05 to 10:45 |
Work practices
- Impact on graphic design and new choices and considerations for the production artist
- New job descriptions for the plate room
- Handling digital plates on press
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| 10:45 to 11:20 |
Mounting
- Surprising differences in mounting tape compressibility choices for digital plates.
- What's new in "digital" mounting technology?
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| 11:20 to 12:00 |
Measuring Devices
- Overview of technology - which is best for you?
- Types of devices and software and there uses to include plate analyzers, spectrophotometers, transmissive and reflective densitometers and micrometers
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| 12:00 to 1:00 |
Lunch (on your own)
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| 1:00 to 1:40 |
Color Management
- Will going digital affect your current process?
- How to best optimize color in a digital workflow - step-by-step analysis
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| 1:40 to 2:20 |
Proofing
- Overview of where digital proofing is today
- Review of current technologies
- Dots or No Dots?
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| 2:20 to 2:30 |
10 minute break
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| 2:30 to 3:10 |
Considerations for Manufacturing Digital Plates
- If you are not making your own digital plates, should you consider it or if you are making them, are you getting the most out of your Process
- We will identify some of the key players for workflows, plate-setters, ink-jet applications and proofing.
- A discussion about the unique features and capabilities for different digital workflows, proofing and plate-setters.
- Is it better to do it all at once or break it down into stages?
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| 3:10 to 3:30 |
Questions to Consider & Oh, by the ways...'s
- What specific questions should you ask each manufacturer?
- What you should be listening for in their responses.
- Additional items that you may need to consider and some of those "Oh by the way..." items that are often overlooked.
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| 3:30 to 4:00 |
Q & A Session
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