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Course number HG426S
Length 4 days
Delivery method Instructor-led training ( ILT)
Onsite dedicated training ( OST)
Price USD $2,340

Course overview

This course provides prepress professionals with the knowledge and skills to submit jobs to an HP Indigo Digital Press 3500, 5000, or 5500. The main focus is the HP Indigo tool, Yours Truly Designer. The 4-day 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 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

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
  • 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 Presses
  • 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 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 Press Production Manager user interface (The Digital Front End of the HP Indigo Press)
  • PDF composition preview
  • Job properties
  • Job editor
  • Group jobs
Yours Truly Designer for variable data workflows
  • Basics
  • SNAP variable data
  • Non-SNAP variable data
  • Trainer demonstration
  • Hands-on lab exercises
Conditional rules
  • Basics
  • Trainer demonstration
  • Hands-on lab exercises
Testing your skills
  • Discuss the project
  • Hand-on lab exercise
  • Explain the solution
Configuring the on-board RIP
  • Overview
  • Ticket template settings
  • Input methods
Built-in imposition options
  • Job editor step and repeat
  • Press imposition
  • RIP imposition
  • Trainer demonstration
  • Hands-on lab exercises
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


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