Instructor-led training (
ILT)
Onsite dedicated training (
OST)
Price
USD $2,920
Special notes
This course is appropriate for customers with the following presses:
HP Indigo press s2000
HP Indigo press ws2000
HP Indigo press ws4000
Course overview
This 5 day course provides prepress professionals with the knowledge and skills to build and load jobs to an HP Indigo Digital Press. Topics covered will relate to the Industrial market place. This will include focus on the HP Indigo tool, Yours Truly Designer. Instruction will then concentrate on Industrial based applications commonly utilized by label and screen printers such as Illustrator, and Photoshop. Finally attention will be directed toward multi-color file manipulation, barcodes and security printing. The course provides 40 percent lecture and 60 percent hands-on.
Prerequisites
Minimum of 1 year digital prepress experience Macintosh or PC
Working knowledge of QuarkXPress 7.x or
Working knowledge of the Adobe CS suite including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat
Audience
Prepress professionals who will be creating and send files to the HP Indigo press
Ways to save
Onsite dedicated training course (OST) at your location
Next steps
Production Flow (web course)
Benefits to you
Receive an introduction to the fundamentals of working with the HP Indigo Digital Press from the vantage point of the prepress professional
Gain an in-depth understanding of the workflows supported by the HP Indigo Digital Press
Learn how to assess and select the most efficient workflow for the project
Learn how to build simple imposition only jobs using Yours Truly Designer and load them to the HP Indigo Digital Press
Learn how to build complex variable data jobs using Yours Truly Designer and load them to the HP Indigo Digital Press
Learn how to build and submit files to the Hp Indigo Digital Press utilizing Industrial based applications
Gain a conceptual advantage related to workflow management in an Industrial press and pre-press environment
Obtain recommendations and instruction pertaining to working with barcodes and security printing.
Learn how to configure the HP Indigo Digital Press on-board RIP
Course outline
Introduction to the HP Indigo Press
General press specifications
Considerations for preparing files
Submitting files to the press
Introduction to Yours Truly Designer
System requirements
Output formats
Export formats
Installation and setup
Yours Truly Designer imposition-only workflow
Basics
Trainer demonstration
Hands-on lab exercises
HP Indigo Press user interface
Job Manager
Job Properties
Job Editor
Press Hot Folder parameters
Yours Truly Designer for variable data workflows
Basics
SNAP variable data
Non-SNAP variable data
Trainer demonstration
Hands-on lab exercise on building and loading a variable data Template job
Hands-on lab exercise on building and loading a variable data Non-template job
Conditional rules
Basics
Trainer demonstration
Hands-on lab exercises
Testing your skills on building a personalization job
Class discussion of the assigned project
Hands-on project for class participants to test their own knowledge regarding the preparation of a personalization job
Participants explain the solution to the project after successful completion
HP Indigo Press built-in imposition options
Overview
Submitting Postscript (PS) and Portable Document Format (PDF) files to the press
Job Editor step and repeat tool on the HP Indigo Press
Press imposition feature on the HP Indigo Press
RIP imposition feature on the HP Indigo Press
Configuring the HP Indigo Press on-board HP Indigo RIP
Output settings
Page settings
Inputs settings
Separation settings
HP Indigo RIP settings
Imposition settings
Testing your skills on the built-in imposition options
Class discussion of the assigned project
Hands-on project for class participants to test their own knowledge regarding the use of the built-in imposition options
Inputs settings
Participants explain the solution to the project after successful completion
Hands-on individual projects
Free time for participants to create individual projects to reinforce workflows discussed in the training course
One-on-One time available with the trainer
Industrial based application basics
Setup and recommendations related to vector and raster based applications
File creation and output from commonly utilized Industrial based applications
Custom color controlling and color theories
Barcodes and Security printing
Utilization of barcode fonts, images and third party applications
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