Fundamentals of Color and Appearance
During this one-day event, industry-recognized color trainers will spend time reviewing the fundamentals of color.
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A Practical Approach To Understanding & Managing Color Quality
This one-day seminar is built for quality control & assurance professionals, lab technicians, parts suppliers, manufacturing specifiers, or anyone who evaluates or approves color.
You’ll walk away with a solid foundation in color and appearance science. From the physics of color to lighting, spectrophotometers and color data, we will teach you how to measure, view and understand color data.
Taught by X-Rite color experts, the seminar is fun, easy to understand and applicable to nearly every industry and business. Through engaging presentations and live demonstrations, you will learn how to control color more effectively within your own organization and throughout your supply chain.
The course requires no prior color training and will address color control for a variety of industries, including retail and apparel brands, business and consumer electronics, automotive, packaging and their related industries in plastics, coatings and textile manufacturing.
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If you are not completely satisfied with an X-Rite seminar, we will provide you with a training voucher to attend another future seminar.
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Who Should Attend?
- Press operators, quality assurance or quality control managers, production supervisors, and prepress professionals looking to better understand how to improve efficiencies in the pressroom. Additionally, if you're working with an X-Rite eXact and/or Color iQC Print, this is the course for you.
Why Attend?
- Our Fundamentals of Color seminar is the leading one-day educational course in the country. Benefiting from the following course tools, suppliers and manufacturers, nationwide, have utilized the information presented to establish color quality standards.
- Knowledgeable Instructors
- Our team of speakers and instructors are considered to be industry leaders and have accumulated years of hands-on practical experience and expertise in their respective fields. You’ll learn from experts in areas such as color management, printing, textiles, plastics and more.
- After the Seminar
- After you’ve attended a seminar, you are encouraged to continue contacting us through your My X-Rite account for additional information or answers to technical questions. Our team will promptly respond to all requests.
- Free Materials
- As part of the seminar tour, all attendees will receive the Munsell Interactive Learning Kit and a Pantone gift free of charge.
- Product Discounts
- Participants will receive a 10% discount voucher that is valid until December 31, 2018. The voucher cannot exceed $500.00 off a purchase.
- Knowledgeable Instructors
Day One: Fundamentals for Color and Printing (FOCAP)
Introduction to Color and Printing
- The science of color and appearance
- Eye mechanism; includes a color vision test and detection of chromatic anomalies
Color Quantification
- Communication of colorimetric information
- Quantification of light sources, color temperatures and illuminants
- Interpretation of spectral reflectance
- The different chromatic models: additive, subtractive and mixed
- Understanding of the CIE color system
Instrumentation
- Difference between densitometers, colorimeters, and spectrophotometers
- The concept of metamerism
- What instrument to use and when
- Understanding the M-Factors
Fundamentals of Print Process Control
- Understanding what process control is
- Overview of process control for creatives and prepress
- Communicating color digitally – CxF and PDF
- Qualifications and standards including G7, CRPCs and what are the printing aims
- Pressroom process control
- Digital printing process control
- Lighting for visual assessment
- Spot color process control including PantoneLIVE and best practices for sample measurement
- Instrument alignment and calibration
- Benefits of Ink Formulation in the workflow
Day Two: Quality Control for Print (QCP)
eXact Deep Dive
- Basic measurements including density, dot gain, tone value, and trap
- Autopatch for process color workflows
- Comparison functions (Basic Compare and Search Tool) and tolerance settings
- Bestmatch
- Opacity and Metamerism Index
eXact Manager Deep Dive
- Standard creation with eXact Manager and transfer of standards to device for measurement
- Managing color libraries with eXact Manager
- Managing PantoneLIVE standards in eXact Manager and on the instrument
- Job template creation with eXact Manager
- Job Tools on the eXact, including G7
NetProfiler
- Understanding what it is for and how it affects your workflow
- The process of profiling the eXact
ColorCert
- Review of spot color workflow with ColorCert QA Tools
- Review of process color workflow and scorecards with ColorCert Pressroom Tool, including tolerancing to Characterization Reference Print Conditions (CRPC)
Featured Product Used in Hands On Seminar
- Instruments: eXact
- Software: ColorCert
- This is a practical workshop focused on X-Rite instruments and software
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