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September 18, 2006

SGIA Workshop Addresses Correct Color Management

Learn first-rate color management skills for digital imaging

Fairfax, Virginia — When you’ve completed SGIA’s “Color Management for Specialty Imagers” (November 6­7, 2006), you’ll have the means to reduce color mistakes and redoes.

The two-day workshop, held at SGIA’s cutting-edge Digital Lab, takes you through the entire color management process. Instructors Jeff Burton (SGIA Digital Imaging Specialist) and Rick Mandel (Mandel Screentech) will provide you with detailed reviews of color theory and perception, color management goals and the tools that can assist in the process.

“The overall purpose of the workshop is to show you how to eliminate as many surprises as possible in the final print,” said Johnny Shell, SGIA’s Vice President for Technical Services. “We teach people using color management will keep color consistent from start to finish.”

The course has helped specialty imagers improve their color predictability and accuracy, lessen color mistakes and minimize wasted materials, labor and time.

“We’ve always been able to get good color, but this workshop helped us get true color,” said past workshop attendee Rick Shurkoff, Art Director for SGIA member Diversified Digital Screenprint Inc. (West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania). “We now are able to match all of our machines together and print the same color with very little manipulation.”

The workshop’s hands-on approach of showing students color management from input to output was the highlight of the program, Shurkoff said. Three months after the workshop, “I implemented 90 percent of what I learned into our workflow,” he said.

For proven color management techniques and the steps needed to consistently produce high-quality color prints, register for the workshop today at SGIA.org.

SGIA — Supporting the Leaders of the Digital & Screen Printing Community
“Specialty imaging” comprises digital imaging, screen printing and the many other imaging technologies SGIA members use, including those they’ll tap in the future. These are the imaging processes and technologies employed to create new products and to enhance existing products including point-of-purchase displays, signs, advertisements, garments, containers, and vehicles. To make the most of your specialty imaging business, take full advantage of the information on SGIA.org, and experience the specialty graphic imaging industry first-hand at SGIA ’06 (Las Vegas Convention Center, September 26­29, 2006).

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Phone: 703-359-1310
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