Virtual Event Video Archive
Presented by William (Bill) Schweitzer, Vice President of Brokerage and Trade Solutions for FedEx Trade Networks
When Bill Schweitzer, vice president of brokerage and trade solutions, took his role at FedEx Logistics, he did not expect to lead his team through a global pandemic and resulting mass congestion in the global supply chain. Bill will discuss how FedEx is keeping the momentum going despite the ongoing global challenges and other industry trends facing business.
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Presented by Ralph Young, Technical Advisor, AICC
In this one hour session Ralph will lead us in a half hour presentation and then facilitate a half hour open discussion on supply chain disruptions, inflation, supply demand and cost push drivers, lead times, and graphic trends. He will share the many education offerings on flexo and other printing technologies that are available from the AICC and The Packaging School. We will discuss the independents large capital investments over the last two years and how success has followed. With his background in substrates he will share how those are getting thinner, lighter, and mostly engineered with recovered fibres and printing challenges represented.
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Presented by GC 4070 Students Clemson University
Join a team of Clemson graphic communications students as they map their journey through the print optimization and press characterization process to color match a waterbased flexo press and a UV flexo press. The students are faced with thought invoking challenges of working with a narrow width, uneven surfaced substrate to match graphics on either press. The choices of components … plate surface patterning or standard; soft, medium or firm stickyback; low, medium or high volume anilox rollers; ink order; test targets for the limited space; the best icc profile build… have to be sifted through. Learn how the students navigated the process for successful “customer” art.
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Presented by Jeffrey Rosensweig. Emory University
Jeff understands the volatility of the market and he will give his specific analysis on our industry. He will look at both macro and micro trends from supply chain, employment, which industries survive and thrive, the shape of the curve, currency, and global trends.
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Presented by Nathan Newsome, Clemson University
Nathan Newsome of Clemson University will share a tour of a virtual flexographic pressroom and discuss the benefits of learning in a virtual environment. Today’s environment has pushed people to adapt much more quickly to living with virtual environments and interactions. Technology, software and hardware have made it easier to learn skills-based tasks in a virtual “hands-on” space. Join Nathan to see the possibilities of interactive training on a virtual press simulator.
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Presented by Ian Ruff, Clemson University
Ian Ruff of Clemson University will share his brainstorming and decision-making hierarchy for custom art designs restricted to only using three spot colors. Successful designs depend in part on the creative approach of the designer to work within the constraints of the press capabilities as well as an understanding of the type of printing process being used. For this session Ian will demonstrate how three-color artwork can be enhanced through unique Illustrator techniques while staying within the production limitations of the flexographic printing press.
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Presented by Ian Ruff of Clemson University
Ian Ruff of Clemson University will share his recipe for incorporating modified process colors into a prepress decision-making workflow. The world of packaging can at times demand creative problem-solving mindset by a print provider to meet customer expectations. Ian will show how he uses tools in Illustrator and Photoshop to successfully substitute spot colors for process colors to maintain brand identity while also utilizing the value of the appearance of process-built colors.
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Presented by Kern Cox, Clemson University Department of Graphic Communications
Kern Cox of Clemson University will share two simple yet robust Photoshop techniques that can be easily applied and will work well on Kraft board on traditional brown box presses. The graphics hide the excessive dot gain and can also avoid the ever-present dot bridging associated with high volume anilox rollers and/or roll to roll printing. Sales people should be aware of the benefits of these two graphic special effects to present options to customers wanting to expand their graphics on the brown box.
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