Unlock the Power of Packaging and Control your Brand Colors - Boston, MA

May 7- 8, 2024

Join Color Management Group Expert Ron Ellis at GMG Americas, in the Boston suburb Hingham, Massachusetts on May 7th and 8th for an exciting seminar to unlock the power of packaging.

Level up your brand's packaging game and achieve stunning results from design to print! Join us for this dynamic and insightful workshop led by Ron Ellis, an expert in optimizing packaging for success. Get ready to delve into the secrets of controlling color and achieving awesome and accurate design to print.

There will be limited seats available, so Register NOW!

Who Should Attend:

• Marketing Professionals
• Packaging Experts
• Brand Managers and Brand Executors
• Offset, Gravure, Flexo, Digital Printers and Converters
• Color and color management staff
• Digital print and production professionals
• Digital printer, press and machine operators
• Prepress, production art, pre-media and graphic design personnel
• Company owners, managers, customer service and sales representatives

This seminar is ideal for anyone involved in the packaging process. Whether you are an industry veteran or a newcomer, this seminar will equip you with the knowledge and skills to elevate your brand's packaging to new heights.

Become a Packaging Rock Star!

Join us for a transformative seminar where you'll gain invaluable insights into design intent, prepress precision, print process excellence, and color control. Take your brand's packaging to the next level and leave a lasting impression on consumers. Act now and unlock the secrets to packaging success with Ron Ellis, your trusted guide in the world of packaging optimization.

Summary of What You will Learn:

Design Intent Mastery: Unleash your brand's true potential by understanding the significance of design intent during the design approval process. Learn how to visualize and see how the final printed product will appear while saving time and reducing approval and correction cycles.

Prepress Precision: Discover the critical prepress techniques that ensure your designs are flawlessly prepared for the printing process. Gain insights into file setup, image manipulation, and resolution optimization, enabling you to create print ready files and achieve impeccable results when the ink hits the paper.

Print Process Excellence: Dive deep into the world of printing and explore the various processes that bring your packaging to life. Learn how to choose the right printing techniques, substrates, and finishes as well as techniques to eliminate surprises and problems when your job hits the pressroom.

Color Control Techniques: Master the art of color management from start to finish. Understand how to maintain consistency and accuracy across design, prepress, and print, avoiding costly rework and ensuring your design intent is what the final product looks like. 

Specifics of What You will Learn:

• Techniques / strategies for controlling color across a supply chain, starting with design and continuing  all the way through print and production.
• How to precisely specify and communicate the color you want. With an accurate color specification, you can design color that can be printed, assure that suppliers know exactly what you want.
• How to control color with Adobe CC, design things that can be printed.
• The top ten tips for creating print ready files.
• Danger zones and problematic areas in print production.
• Basics of color & color measurement + how to communicate using language of color.
• How color management works and ways you can use it to visualize design and output.
• Understanding print, press calibration, and how production printing works.
• How to use a universal file format across multiple print methods
• What are print standards and how can you use these to your advantage.
• Differences and limitations of traditional and digital print.
• What’s possible with proof to press matching.
• Special tools and techniques for packaging production.
• Basics of print quality control. 
• Develop a print quality program.
• Evaluating process and spot color reproduction.
• How to create realistic tolerances for print.
• How to evaluate press sheets and printed products.
• How to score and evaluate printed products.
• Examples of print quality programs, and how you can adapt these for your own use 

The Color Management Group Consultant and Certified Instructor for this event is Ron Ellis. Ron Ellis is a consultant specializing in brand quality, color management, automation, and workflow integration. He has performed thousands of press calibrations and has conducted training and consulting for a wide range of customers in North America, Europe and Asia. Meet your Instructor: Ron Ellis. Ron will be accompanied by our newest CMG Consultant Member, Robb Frimming, who has spent his entire career working in the packaging industry.

What's Included:

• Breakfast and Lunch 
• Two Hour remote follow up session
• A coupon code to use for future purchases
• A link to take the online exam afterward
• A Certificate once you pass the exam
• Knowledge that will last a lifetime

Location of Seminar:

GMG Americas
35 Pond Park Road Hingham, MA 02043
(781) 740-4077
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DISCLAIMER:

Please make sure to provide all of the attendee's contact information when checking out.

Minimum class size requirements must be met 1 week prior to workshop start date. There is a 20 person attendee minimum in order to hold this workshop. Please DO NOT make your travel plans until class size is confirmed, you will be notified via email. You will receive a full refund if minimum class size is not met and the class is cancelled. No refunds for cancellations within 1 week of scheduled class start date.