Shuttle from Hacienda (1 mile away) and Comfort Inn (.5 miles away) to Quality Inn Conference Center

Kickoff Session – Where are you at in your color control journey? Are you just beginning to ensure that all your printers are consistent from day to day? Or have you used G7 methodology to get your conventional printers gray balanced for one substrate. Are you using ICC Profile conversions for your digital printers? Can you tell me how close each printer is matching GRACoL? Can you tell me how close any printer is matching to any other printer?

But what is next? G7+ or Assessing customer acceptable, or waste?  You color journey should be based on Color Expectations, for both process (page matching) and brand colors matching and define how close is close enough. And communicate to your operators, sales people, management, and customers! This session will help you define where you are in your maturity of implementing a Print Quality Platform for your organization.

Terms and definitions, G7, GRACoL, delta E, E-Factor, ICC Profiles, ICC DeviceLinks….

Fives C’s of Color Control
Hands on – measure brand colors and compare
Hands on – measure process (color bars) and generate G7 Curves

What to aim your printer to in order to assess salable or waste print

Creating a custom color specification to accommodate specific lighting conditions that you have to deal with?

Unusual printing conditions: Why to measure: quality control and consistency, or trying to Color match on printer?

So you want to be a 2 delta E Tolerance…
This session will discuss all the variables involved in color reproduction to help determine what is a realistic tolerance for determining what is salable versus waste. This covers the concept of delta E stack, the fact that every color variable accumulates for the entire tolerance.  

Shuttle from Hacienda (1 mile away) and Comfort Inn (.5 miles away) to Quality Inn Conference Center 

Industry Update:

• Status of G7, G7+, Universal Data set
• Status of PRX, PQX
• Status of Extended Color Gamut standard reference
• Status of UV Uncoated reference

When to use which instrument: M0, M1, M2, M3, Sphere SPEX, SPIN, with or without UV

1. Options for getting measurement data from your press, automatically… This session will provide findings from interviewing many companies that have in-line measurement devices and their policies for providing the measurement data to the customer.

• Inline, near line, spectral, colorimetric, instrument, scanner – pro’s and con's
• Survey results
• Heidelberg, Komori, Man Roland, Roland, KBA, HP Colorbeat, Xerox Primelink, Third party- X-Rite, Techkon, Verioria, PrintFlow, Rutherford, Digital Info,

Making a Project to assess if third party is printing to your companies expectations. As a Printer – do you ever ask other printers to print work on your behalf? If so, would you like to have an automated way to electronically communicate the print requirements, and then be able to receive the print quality data back from them showing that they printed to your companies exceptions? Tutorial

Boat Cruise – Drinks and cocktails on a river cruise to the Gulf of Mexico to see the Sunset

Back to Downtown Dock (Hacienda)

Shuttle from Hacienda (1 mile away) and Comfort Inn (.5 miles away) to Quality Inn Conference Center 

Building a Color library for brand colors –hands on

Setting tolerances for these colors Tutorial with users optionally following along

Tutorial for Setting up a spot color placeholder color bar with RGB and CMYK values

Using Capture to measure dynamic spot color bar

12:00 Lunch

Creating a Project of these brand colors to distribute to other PSPs.

Creating swatch books, pages for colors that MATCH across multiple printing devices, substrates, and surface finishing.

Color Match Scan, Tutorial – live Tutorial showing steps of iterating spot color library and talking through how to configure in different workflows.

Conference Ends