Course number HG424S

Delivery method
Instructor-led training (ILT)
Onsite dedicated training (OST)

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

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
• Microprinting

• Upis u radnu knjižicu: ne
• Certifikat: ne
• Uvjerenje: ne
• In-house: ne
• Svjedodžba: ne
• Diploma: ne