Description

This very practical training will allow you to understand and master each stage of the graphic chain from the specifications to the control of the finished product. You will gain efficiency, credibility and relevance in your relationships with your service providers (printers, web agencies, etc.).

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

Managers, communications officers and anyone wishing to familiarize themselves with the graphic chain and its monitoring.

Prerequisites

Training objectives

Use precise technical vocabulary in your relationships with graphic chain service providers

Formulate needs and define specifications

Develop a realistic production schedule

Know how to choose a printing process that meets quality, cost and performance requirements deadline

Training program

• Understanding the graphics chain
  • Definition of a graphic chain.
  • The 5 stages of the graphic chain.
  • Creation and layout software: Xpress, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
  • Managing colors and resolutions.
  • Demonstration Optimizing images according to their destinations.
• Prepare a file for printing
  • The different printing techniques and methods.
  • Imposition and shaping.
  • Surface treatments and finishing.
  • Photoengraving: four-color process, spot colors, flashing.
  • The basic rules to guarantee the smooth running of the production line.
  • Files and documents to be submitted to the printer.
  • Practical work Write specifications for the printer.
• Choose the printing technique
  • Choose your support according to the desired result (papers, inks, surfacing.
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  • Determine the printing process best suited to your project ( offset, digital.
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  • Choose the right printer for your project.
  • Using Computer To Plate (CTP).
  • Budgetary repercussions of technical choices.
  • Case study Selecting printing techniques and processes for a printing project.
• Focus on finishing and shaping
  • Varnishing and lamination.
  • Embossing.
  • Assembly and stitching.
  • Cutting.
  • The use of shapes and volumes: cutting, folding.
  • Case study Optimizing the finishing of a printing medium.
• Manage the contractual relationship with the printer well
  • The contractual elements.
  • The legal notions.
  • The purchase order.
  • The Proof of Printing (BAT).
  • Colorimetric proofs.
  • Bleed through.
  • Practical work Prepare a complete file to work with a printer.
• Control the quality and conformity of the finished product
  • Know and follow the different control steps.
  • Digital cromalin.
  • FOGRA certification.
  • Validation pre-tests .
  • The final check of product conformity.
  • Practical work Check the conformity of a print with the initial specifications.