Automation makes plenty of promises, but how realistic are they to achieve? And, how should you implement automation project to minimize risk and time?

Listen to a commercial printer and an in-plant share their experiences in automating their shops. You will:

• Hear what they were trying to achieve and whether they are succeeding
• Learn their implementation strategy
• See demonstrations of how automation works in their shops

Discover potential for automation using Fiery tools you already own

Now that you have your color processes under control, how do you maintain that performance every day? Join this session to learn:

• The value of verification within color process control
• How to streamline color verification tasks and track color quality in real time
• How to use technology to automate color processes and steps to save valuable time
• Color troubleshooting and preventative measures for correct results

Consistent, accurate, and sellable color results come from taking control of your color, from the designer's intent to the finished job and all the steps in between - this is known as color process control.

This session starts with why great color matters and understanding your customers' expectations. What the foundations for successful color management are, the required elements and first steps to establish a standard operating procedure for color that works for your business, and why this is the key to producing great results. Join this session to learn:

• What great color looks like and why it matters to businesses
• The foundations for successful color management
• What is 'color process control'?
• The required elements and first steps to establish a standard operating procedure for color
• Why conquering these is the key to color success

This webinar will show you workflow automation that goes beyond from setup and printing through finishing. Learn how you can realize savings of 70% in setup time in the production of more profitable jobs with popular offline finisher equipment brands. This webinar will focus on:

• The value of having a fully automated end-to-end workflow
• Integrated solutions with all major slitter/cutter/creaser finisher brands
• Unique integrations with Duplo finishers

Implementing workflow automation doesn’t need to be expensive or intimidating. This webinar provides real-world examples of how small, through to large print providers use automation today to improve profitability. Discover ideas to help you plan an achievable path to higher profitability through automation with minimal or no investment:

• JobFlow Base provides free, limited automation to many Fiery customers
• A free, fully functional JobFlow trial is available for all webinar attendees
• Online operator training is free

This webinar demonstrates how to easily personalize existing jobs, promote new services with templates, and show customers how to work with you to promote and reopen their businesses successfully. Learn how to help your customers kick-start their businesses by:

• Quickly creating a range of personalized applications with variable text and graphics
• Learning how designers can create and submit personalized jobs to you
• Using free new templates that you can offer your customers right away

• Why you should offer VDP services to your customers and how you can get started today, for free.
• How to merge existing master and variable documents together
• How to add personalization to existing files and submit them to a Fiery server
• How you can empower marketers, designers, and other creatives to create their own personalized files and send them to you for printing
  
  

• How to unify print job management and achieve the highest efficiency in your print room
• New tips and tricks to accelerate print management
• Safely migrate all archived jobs to the new Archive Manager solution, and have a single view for all archived jobs that can share easily across all your Fiery servers
• New makeready features that enable you to automate more jobs and efficiently prep them for flawless output

• Streamline the workflow processes for textile and fashion designers
• Match colors and keep colors, patterns, and seasonal palette data organized for the entire design team
• Design and build prints, knits, and wovens — directly from the Adobe environment
• Efficiently create seamless repeats in drops and shifts, as well as stunning colorways
• Create flat sketches with ease and create storyboards in just a few simple clicks

• How this latest release will help you unify your digital print room to gain efficiencies and greater productivity
• How quick and easy the upgrade process is
• What's different and new, plus how to make a smooth transition to this new version

"We continue to look at the forefront of where technology is going and what we are doing to keep ahead of the game as one of Australia's leading digital printing houses". Peter Wagener, MD, All Flags

The webinar commences with an overview of the soft signage market and its expected growth – globally and within APAC. Peter Wagener, Managing Director of All Flags then speaks with EFI APAC Director Andy Yarrow, on how he has diversified and grown his business with the EFI VUTEk range. Plus offers an insight into how All Flags has integrated automated workflow solutions to transform its operation. Peter discusses how he is:

• Accelerating results with integrating EFI Inkjet, Fiery and Software solutions in their business
• Extending All Flags customer base, both nationally and regionally, along with its focus to push boundaries
• Continuing to grow his business with a clear business technology strategy

• The value of using G7 curves with your Fiery proServer and Fiery XF system
• How to use a G7 curve along with your ICC profiles
• Why the G7 process can be used no matter what specification you work with, e.g. FOGRA, IDEAlliance, or ISO

• Demonstrate a new way to simplify the automation of gangup jobs 
• Show you how to add logos, watermarks, and graphic illustrations to documents and avoid going back to the designer 
• Highlight new shortcuts that can help increase production with fewer clicks

• Get familiar with the new color tab interface in Job Properties
• Learn how to ensure the right color profile is used for all your jobs
• Ensure job setup consistency with new server defaults

• Take a guided tour and navigate the new features
• Understand the easy ways to upgrade
• Access free online educational resources

• Simplify your system and workflows by using presets and workspaces
• Utilize more of your available color by using the Dynamic Rendering Intent
• Improve process monitoring with the Fiery Dynamic Wedge™
• Control user access through the use of Hotfolders and the UniDriver

• What G7 is and why it’s important to your business
• How G7 can help you achieve repeatable, predictable color
• How to perform G7 calibration of your Fiery Driven™ print system using Fiery Color Profiler Suite

• The fundamentals of process control
• How to use verification to check for device drift
• How to correct for device drift
• Where to use a G7 curve 
• How to match one device to another

What you don’t know about your operation can impact your bottom line. Find out how getting operational data directly from your Fiery Driver™ engines, presented in visual, easy-to-understand formats, can help you make informed operational decisions to improve profitability. Learn how to:

• Get real-time alerts for production problems
• Spot unfavorable trends early, and act on them quickly
• Improve workload balance, equipment usage, and production output
• Manage Fiery configurations for multiple presses to run a more consistent and efficient operation

• The basics of profile creation
• Which profiling target to use and why
• The impact of black generation settings
• Best practices for optimization 
• How often to profile and optimize, and more

• Custom calibration file creation for your inks and substrates
• Getting the best results from existing linearizations
• Fiery profiling and optimising possibilities

Delivering outstanding, high-quality prints every time, on time is critical to your business success. Learn how to use advanced Fiery graphics arts tools to quickly troubleshoot and fix common print issues right at the DFE, eliminating rework and the need to go back to prepress:

• See how to easily make color adjustments with a few clicks
• Learn to quickly identify and solve problems such as missing font or spot colors, trapping, and transparency rending before printing a single page
• Discover how to diagnose whether artifacts on the printed page stem from file processing or the print engine

• ICC profiling basics
• Profile inspection and editing
• The benefits of quality control
• How to diagnose and solve color issues

Get the best return on your Fiery makeready application and discover how to leverage Enfocus PitStop Edit, a powerful Adobe® Acrobat plug-in, to enhance or fix PDF documents in the prepress department or at the digital front end. This webinar will show you how to use PitStop Edit more effectively with:

• An overview of features and how you can use them to modify PDF files without going back to the customer
• Lessons on how to make quick and easy image adjustments, plus corrections to text and color – all within the familiar Adobe Acrobat interface
• Demonstration of common editing scenarios

• How to get the best match possible on your substrates
• Working with PANTONE®, Toyo, DIC and HKS® matching systems
• Modifying existing spot colors
• Adding custom spot colors, and building custom spot color libraries
• How to evaluate spot color accuracy
• Using the Dynamic Wedge™ to improve spot color reproduction

If you are a print professional who wants to take your color to the next level, this session is for you. Building on our previous sessions on color, this advanced webinar shows you how to:

• Select the right profiles and settings to get the best results on your DFE
• Configure color settings to correctly process page objects in different color spaces
• Understand gamut compression options and their impact on image quality
• Ensure grayscale pages are not charged as color clicks
• Identify and fix common causes of color management failure

• Fiery XF and Fiery proServer's cutting options
• Cut path creation and use
• Tiling, nesting and step & repeat functions

• Understand how to set goals, choose communication channels and implement campaign elements
• Learn how to select the right VDP language for your workflow
• See both simple and complex variable data campaigns built during the webinar

• Which software and file formats to use for your desired results
• How to verify if a file is print ready
• What tasks and changes can be performed in your RIP

• Determine how the characteristics of paper relate to your print manufacturing process
• Configure print settings to get the best quality on each stock
• Maximize productivity through paper stock management and automated settings on the digital print system
• Choose a paper stock for calibration and set the correct profile

• Applying the correct settings for a job type and end product
• Which Fiery XF settings impact color
• Custom calibration, profiling and optimization
• Working with spot colors

• Why standards exist and what they are useful for
• The latest standards and how they differ globally
• G7, where this fits
• Where standards impact the print process

• Basic color theory and management terms
• Color spaces and rendering intents
• ICC profiles, assigning and conversions
• The importance of calibration and profiling

• Identifying print quality problems in color images, including techniques to visually evaluate both color and grayscale images for quality assurance
• Optimizing output quality for vector graphics, such as illustrations and gradients, in both design applications and the DFE
• Understanding print quality issues that can result from design elements including transparency and overprints
• Configuring a DFE so that grayscale pages don't result in a color click charge, plus optimizing image quality for grayscale pages

• Why Fiery — what is a Fiery digital front end (DFE) and how it can help you produce more
• The basics of Fiery Command WorkStation — where to start and how to optimize your job management
• Examples of setting up common job management workflows
• Tips and resources for ensuring your ongoing success

• Create print jobs with spot colors
• Define spot colors on the Fiery digital front end
• Make custom profiles for top quality color matching

• Color management for digital workflows
• Color calibration and profiling
• Color matching across print technologies