Technical Training

5 day Certificate course
Practical Colour Management

Faculties Paul Lindstrom, Malmo University, Sweden
Pongtorn Juntarawatt Gretag-Macbeth, Hong Kong

Delhi Don Bosco Technical Institute July 10 to 14, 2006
Chennai Anna University July 17 to 21, 2006

Infrastructure for the course will include four testing instruments and profiling software from Gretag-Macbeth, both Mac and PC workstations, desktop scanner, server, inkjet proofers. The establishments also contain imagesetters and printing presses for demonstrating the entire colour management loop and for test printing.

The faculty is Paul Lindstrom of Malmo University, Sweden and Pontorn Juntarawatt of GretagMacbeth. The textbook that will be given to all candidates is "Understanding Color Management" by Dr. A. Sharma.

The course fees are Rs. 25,000. All candidates will be colour vision tested and only those who pass the final exam will be given colour management certificates. Others will be given a participation certificate. The course will take place over five full working days. The fees only cover the course material and lunch and coffee. No accommodation is provided as a part of the course fees. However, IppStar will try and help out-of-town candidates with appropriate accommodation.

Monitor calibration

• Making sure that the environment for calibration is correct -- lighting, colour of walls etc., and what are the industry standard parameters.
  
  
• Making sure that the hardware ie the monitor is worth calibrating.
  
  
• Once the calibration is complete, how to check if the calibration is correct, and if the calibration is faulty then should we redo the calibration or edit the monitor profile (how to differentiate if the calibration should be redone or editing the profile can be a good option).
  
  
• Extended gamut workflows like Hexachrome can be or cannot be viewed correctly on a particular monitor.
  

Scanner calibration

• Making a scanner profile and checking the profile.

• Are there any industry standard parameters or practices?

Digital camera

• Making a camera profile and checking the profile.

• How to make sure that the results that we are getting from the profile are correct ie should we keep a DC target below every image so that the target is maintained while correcting the images in Photoshop or any such industry specific practice that needs to be taken care of while shooting an image.

• RAW plugin, some detail of how to use it.

Press

• What are the industry standard parameters?

• Checking TAC (total ink coverage) of press on specific paper stock/ink combination etc.

• Checking greys and getting correct values.

• Checking densities and dot gains to identifying correct densities for paper stock and ink combinations because the industry standard densities values might not always be the correct densities to get best results because they are done under ideal conditions which is not the case in real world

• GCR and UCR fundamentals and how to correctly identify what to use when and why and how to get correct results (This could be here or in the scanner subhead or both).

• Correct practice for printing of target charts like ECI or IT8 while profiling a press.

• Identifying problems with the press profile and correcting them maybe by redoing the profiling or correcting the profile.

• Extended gamut workflows like Hexachrome, what test targets are used, how to make profiles for extended gamut workflows, what ink limits are required, how to check the profiles for extended gamut workflows, what are correct practices or industry specific parameters etc.

Inkjet printers

• Checking TAC for a specific media type

• Making a profile

• Proofing for extended gamut workflows

• Checking and correcting the profile to understand if the profile needs to be redone or corrected.

Also likely to be covered are aspects like device link profiles, abstract profiles etc.. Why do we need these profiles and how to put them to use? Possibly third party tools to check profiles.

Everyone in the course will be taught to make a good profile, and to know if the profile is correct or not, because if the profile is made and not checked for its correctness then the whole idea of colour management may be defeated. Checking of the profile will be stressed at all stages

Contact: IPP Services Training and Research Pvt Ltd,
N-10, Sector XI, (Near Metro Heart Hospital)
Noida - 201301.
Ph: +91 (120) 2540258, 2540259
from Delhi you should dial 95-120-2540258, or 95-120-2540259
naresh@ippmail.com or manoj@ippmail.com

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IPP Star offers training programs in the areas of Packaging, Printing and Business Practices in these industries. The courses are tailored for both technical and non-technical personnel and each individual program is structured to impart the depth of knowledge required for the specific participant group. Programs are available for all levels of employees from supervisory cadres to top management. Application software courses are also available.

Presently, the technical courses broadly cover the following subjects:
· Packaging Basics · Packaging Materials · Packaging Systems
· Packaging Machinery · Conversion of Packaging Materials
· Package Printing and Embellishment · Packaging Design

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· Packaging and Marketing · Marketing of Packaging Products and Services · Formulating Business Plans · Pricing · Marketing Strategy · Product and Market Development · Strategic Planning
· Forecasting, Market Research and Database Management
· Organisation Development

IPP Star training programs are worked out using two alternative approaches:

· Customised programs which are worked out for individual organizations and designed for specific needs or groups of participants.

· Standard programs which are designed for groups comprising participants from different organisations.

All major courses are made up discrete modules, any of which can be made available as per requirements. All course content is in audio-visual format to facilitate assimilation and effectiveness.

Courses may be run on either a full-time or part-time basis to suit the requirements of working people.

Customised courses can be run at customer-designated premises or at our training centre at Noida. This centre is well-equipped and is just 15 to 20 minutes' drive from the major business districts of New Delhi. Good public transport facilities are also available.

Education and Training
ippStar provides education and training services at the Noida centre, on-line, and on-site. Its staff can create special courses for your plant or office. Library, information search, software demonstration and training services are available at the centre. These services are primarily meant for the members, donors, investors and patrons of ippStar.

The centre is located at N10, Sector XI, Noida, 201301, Uttar Pradesh, India. Ph: +91 (120) 2540258, 2540259. From Delhi you should dial 95-120-2540258, or 95-120-2540259. You can contact us by email at education@ippstar.com.