Leveraging RIT’s comprehensive collection of full-scale contemporary printing equipment, laboratory instrumentation, and the expertise of RIT’s world renowned faculty and technical staff, the Printing Applications Laboratory provides industry with empirical approaches to control and improve the quality of their products and expand on the knowledge of printing industry professionals.
PAL provides digital media certification programs, product/process auditing, competitive benchmarking, and assistance with product development. PAL also assists the industry with a broad range of both open enrollment and customized corporate educational programs.
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RIT’s most popular overview seminar on graphic arts technology provides a up-close look at each step of the print production process. By discussing and observing the workflow steps for typical printing jobs – all the way from press to production on RIT’s digital and web presses – you’ll gain practical knowledge of the many complex processes that make up today’s dynamic printing industry.
This fast-paced program is packed with information and exciting demonstrations to give you the knowledge to perform your job more effectively. You’ll get a solid, comprehensive grounding in graphic arts technology – as only RIT, the leader in graphic arts training, can deliver.
You will learn
- Major printing processes: sheetfed and web offset, digital, gravure, and screen printing methods
- Printing production workflows
- Digital press computer applications
- Image acquisition technology
- File creation and preparation for print
- Print finishing and management
- Trade jargon
Program Outline
- Major printing processes and markets
- Overview of current and emerging technologies
- Advantages, disadvantages and trends
- Getting the job printed
- Production steps and workflow issues, from prepress to bindery
- Examining workflow scenarios for direct-to-film, -plate, and/or -press.
- Digital prepress applications
- What are the most popular software applications you need to know about?
- What are they used for?
- What are their limitations?
- Introduction to printing papers and substrates
- Classifications and grades
- Properties, characteristics and end use
- What you should consider when choosing a substrate
- Ink, toner and inkjet
- Presses, printers, proofers
- Properties, characteristics, and end use
- Design issues
- Product design vs. page/image design
- Creating designs that will print successfully
- Image acquisition and reproduction
- Popular image acquisition technologies:scanners, digital cameras
- Workflow implications
- What needs to happen before the image can be printed
- Print finishing and management
- Imposition planning
- Finishing concepts and procedures
- Binding methods
- Demonstrations of printing jobs produced on RIT’s presses
- Digital printing
- Web offset lithography
Who should attend
This seminar is an excellent introduction for newcomers to the graphic arts industry as well as anyone who works with digital prepress houses, printers and publishers. Among those who will benefit the most are:
- Printing equipment and supply representatives
- Customer service representatives
- Graphic designers and art directors
- Photographers
- Agency production personnel
- Marketing/communication staff
- Publication supervisors
- Writers
- Print buyers
Instructors
Kenneth Hoffmann Chairperson/Professor, Arts and Imaging Studies RIT National Technical Institute for the Deaf
David Cohn Associate Professor, Arts and Imaging Studies RIT National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Program fee
$1095
Register for this course
- Use our online registration form
- Call us toll free at 1-800-724-2536
- Outside the continental United States, call 585-475-7172
- Send a fax to 585-475-7000
If you have any questions about the program, please e-mail Fred White at ffwter@rit.edu
PAL has released new seminar dates reaching to December, 2012. We provide training in both traditional and digital technologies using world renowned instructors, comprehensive prepress and press labs, and state-of-the-art imaging facilities. We can also provide custom training. Below are all seminars available for registration to date. Note: these dates may be subject to change. Continue reading New Seminar Dates Announced
Rochester Institute of Technology has announced the commercial launch of PSAsm Certification. PSAsm Certification, or Printing Standards Audit Certification, is a rigorous, objective process for assessing a printer’s ability to operate a standards-compliant workflow.
To read the full release click PSA Press Release
On April 14 Professor Robert Chung gave on presentation at the TC 130 WG13 meeting in Berlin, Germany. The presentation helped push CIEDE2000 into the revision of the ISO 12647-2 printing standard.
Go here to view Robert Chung’s Presentation.
RIT is developing a Printing Standards Audit (PSA) program that certifies printing companies who have demonstrated their abilities to conform to ISO printing requirements. RIT is also contributing to the development of printing standards at the national and international level. A reason that RIT is engaged in these activities is because of its expertise and curriculum in print media technology. Understanding variation in printed products through database analysis and utilizing statistics to make decisions in tolerance settings and in printing conformance are central to the mission of the PSA program.
The objective of this report was to analyze the variance of the PSA database. The source of the PSA database was a survey of 35 printing companies (N=35 jobs, with two samples per job). Each printing company submitted five sample sheets. Two of these sheets were measured by two instruments twice. Therefore, there were a total of 8 sets of measurements for each printing company (2 sheets x 2 instruments x 2 times). The printing target was IT8.7/4, which includes 1,617 patches. The measurement instruments were two X-Rite i1 iSis with M0 mode and white backing.
The analysis was focused on data variance as supplied in the files of (1) measurement summary, and (2) data set analysis. In order to summarize measurement variation, this project reports deviation conformance of the database to ISO 12647-2. Continue reading this report.
Print buyers are asking printers to have their printing processes certified in order to become preferred suppliers. Comprehensive process certification is something new to printers in the US. A successful certification program requires that the certification body is independent and is technically capable, as well as a market that demands the certification.
A number of printing industry influencers approached RIT in December 2008 and asked RIT to offer a process certification program to the U.S. printing industry. In 2009, a committee was formed of faculty and staff from the School of Print Media and the Printing Applications Laboratory to investigate this proposal. The committee submitted a research project proposal to the Printing Industry Center in November 2009 with the goal of conducting a printing standards survey in order to capture the view of printing companies regarding the role of printing standards applicable to workflow from data reception to printing.
A questionnaire was designed to assess the role of standards that impact five areas of workflow: file creation and data reception, contract proof, CTP/press calibration, process control, and workflow efficiency. An Internet-based survey tool was used to implement the survey worldwide. A total of 117 companies (including 90 printers) from North America, Europe, Asia, and Mexico participated in the survey. This report provides the complete results of that survey.
On October 13, Robert Chung gave a presentation in Sao Paulo, Brazil, regarding the PSA Certification benefits and process. It also highlighted RIT as the center of US certification activity. Use the links below to view it.
Robert Chung’s First Presentation [PDF]
Robert Chung’s Second Presentation [PDF]
This month, RIT student Nick Gawreluk appeared in the Goss International Web Offset Magazine, detailing his work at the Printing Applications Laboratory with the weekly RIT student-run publication Reporter Magazine. To view the article, download the PDF below.
Issue 67 [PDF]
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