Commercial printers and Office Products Dealers new to the Large Format market, as well as new employees of existing Large Format printers and all colleagues from a non-production environment.

Course Syllabus

Introduction to large format market

The printing process

• Design & Preparation
• Ripping
• Printing
• Finishing

Printer Types - over view of the different machines, costs, strengths / weakness, type of job, materials to available to print on for:-

• Aqueous (water based) machines
• Solvent machines
• UV ink machines
• Latex machines
• Flat bed / roll feed, print and cut machines

Tools

• What tools will you need and what are they used for.
• Hand finishing tools
• Laminators
• Cutter/trimmers

Hands on demonstrations of:-

• How to print and then finish a banner - trimming - hemming - eyeleting
• How to print a canvas and then mount it - trimming - frames - stretching - fixing
• How to print and install a pop up/roller banner - trimming - base units - fixing
• How to mount prints on boards - basic vinyl application
• How to mount prints on glass