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
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