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Course number HG426S
Length 4 days
Delivery method Instructor-led training ( ILT)
Onsite dedicated training ( OST)
Price USD $2,640

Course overview

This course provides prepress professionals with the knowledge and skills to submit jobs to an HP Indigo Digital Press 3500, 3550, 5000, or 5500. The main focus is the HP Indigo Tool; SmartStream Designer. The course is 40 percent lecture and 60 percent hands-on.


Prerequisites

  • Minimum of 1 year digital prepress experience Macintosh or PC
  • Working knowledge of QuarkXPress or
  • Working knowledge of the Adobe CS suite including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat

Audience

  • Prepress professionals who create and send files to the HP Indigo 3500/3550/5000/5500 Digital Press

Ways to save

  • Onsite Dedicated training at your location (OST)

Benefits to you

  • Receive an introduction to the fundamentals of working with the HP Indigo Press from the vantage point of the prepress professional
  • Become familiar with the prepress support documentation
  • Learn to work with the HP Press Production Manager UI and the remote access tool called the Remote Production Manager
  • Learn how to build simple impositions only jobs using SmartStream Designer and load them to the HP Indigo Press
  • Learn how to build complex variable data jobs using SmartStream Designer and load them to the HP Indigo Press
  • Learn how to work with the HP Indigo Press built-in imposition options
  • Gain an understanding of the proprietary and non-proprietary workflows supported by the press
  • Be trained on how to configure the HP Indigo Press on-board HP Production RIP
  • Become skilled at assessing and selecting the most efficient workflow for the project

Course outline

Introduction to the HP Indigo Digital Press

  • Digital Front End
  • Printing Process
  • Press Specifications
  • Considerations for Preparing Files
  • Submitting Files to the Press

Introduction to the Remote Production Manager

  • System Requirements
  • Installation
  • Setting User Accounts
  • Tour of the Interface
  • Pre-Configured Input Methods
  • Pre-Configured Ticket Templates

Introduction to SmartStream Designer

  • System Requirements
  • Output Formats
  • Export Formats
  • Installation and Setup

SmartStream Designer Imposition-Only Workflow

  • Basics
  • Trainer Demonstration
  • Hands-On Lab Exercises

HP Press Production Manager User Interface (The Digital Front End of the HP Indigo Press)

  • PDF Composition Preview
  • Job Properties
  • Job Editor
  • Group Jobs

SmartStream Designer for Variable Data Workflows

  • Basics
  • FAST Variable Data
  • Rich Variable Data
  • Dynamic Personalization
  • Trainer Demonstration
  • Hands-On Lab Exercises

Conditional Rules

  • Basics
  • Trainer Demonstration
  • Hands-On Lab Exercises

Hot folder Workflow for Windows

  • Basics
  • Trainer Demonstration

Testing Your Skills on Building a Personalization Job

  • Class Discussion of the Assigned Project
  • Hands-On Project for Class Participants to Test Their Knowledge on Preparation of Personalization Jobs
  • Participants Explain the Solution to the Project After Successful Completion

Configuring the On-Board RIP

  • Overview
  • Ticket Template Settings
  • Input Methods

Built-In Imposition Options

  • Overview
  • Submit Postscript (.PS) and Portable Document Format (.PDF) Files to the Press
  • Job Editor Step and Repeat
  • Press Imposition
  • Ticket Template Imposition

Hands-On Individual Projects

  • Time for Participants to Create Individual Projects to Reinforce Workflows Discussed in Class
  • One-on-One Time Available with the Trainer

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