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When Less Becomes More!

Session 3 at Fall Technical Conference 2023.

Tuesday, October 10

8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Marriott Ballroom VI-X

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About This Session

Meet the team behind the conference print project as they discuss its components and the tools used for proofing and production.

Presentations & Speakers

Digital Printing: ​A Perfect Complement to Flexography​

Sarah Ervin and Shane Govert, Domino North America

Presentation Details
See more. Learn more. Do more. Domino will present on their latest innovations in digital printing, and how digital is deployed alongside flexographic production as the perfect complement, whether that be a digital press as a separate stand-alone system next to your flexographic press, or inline as a single-pass flexography/digital hybrid. Learn how you can do more with Domino.
Speaker Bios
About Sarah: Sarah Ervin, digital solutions specialist for Domino North America, supports Domino customers and team members with workflow analysis, color management and application support in the digital label market. With experience from both the production side and application support from the manufacturer perspective, applying the concepts of the technical color management space in real-world scenarios has been a particular point of expertise. Working alongside a global team of specialists in the growing market of digital printing has given plenty of opportunities for continued learning and understanding of the industry as a whole.

About Shane: Shane Govert, product manager at Domino North America, manages the product lifecycle of Domino’s digital inkjet portfolio. With a customer-centric approach, the primary focus is to listen to the industry professionals to develop products which help drive innovations forward. His experience also includes a background in commercial/offset production and packaging/flexographic product management.

Panelists

William Birkett

William Birkett

Engineer at Doppelganger LLC

Panelist Bio
About William: William Birkett has engineering degrees from the University of Michigan. After a short stint in the automotive business, he started a prepress company, Precision Color Inc, which prospered for many years. He and a colleague, Charles Spontelli, got involved with print standards in 2003. Together, they developed a press calibration technique based on measurements of near-neutral colors. Since 2005, William has worked as a print quality consultant. At the TAGA annual meeting in 2018, William and Charles introduced an improved calibration technique known as The Optimal Method. Since then, they’ve developed an open-source software tool, PressCal, to implement this improved technique. William is glad for the opportunity to apply his math and engineering skills to help the printing industry.
Bobby Congdon

Bobby Congdon

Clinical Assistant Professor and Internship Coordinator for Clemson University Graphic Communications

Panelist Bio
About Bobby: Bobby Congdon is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Graphic Communications Department at Clemson University, where he teaches the Inks and Substrates course, as well as manages the student internship program. He also directs the STRIPE virtual flexo press simulator program, which aims to provide highly accessible print training to students and professionals. Previously, he was the Assistant Director at the Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics at Clemson University, managing a small but capable team providing world class training, research and services to the printing and packaging industry.
Catherine Haynes

Catherine Haynes

VP of Growth & Development at All Printing Resources Inc

Panelist Bio
About Catherine: Catherine Haynes is the VP of Growth and Development for All Printing Resources. She has more than 25 years of experience in the printing industry, has been a certified G7 Expert for over 14 years, and is a certified FIRST Implementation Specialist. At APR, she assists sales technicians as a technical representative for various customer projects related to training, characterizations, prepress and pressroom assessments, color management, digital workflows, platemaking and implementation or expansion of in-house prepress capabilities. She is a member of the Women of Flexo Mentorship Committee. She also coordinates and conducts industry online and in-person training programs and has been a regular speaker/chair at FTA, Clemson, TLMI, FLAG and other industry events.
Steve Smiley

Steve Smiley

Principal at SmileyColor & Associates

Panelist Bio
About Steve: Steve Smiley is a 50-year veteran from print, premedia and packaging brand solutions. Steve’s previous position was managing color across all printing types, commercial, direct mail and packaging, managing print globally. Steve is a proud member of the FTA family, participating at annual FORUMs. As a brand manager, Steve has developed the tools for physical and digital standards to define common ingredients and aims across supply chain partners, along with supporting documents like ISO 12647-6 Flexographic Prints, ISO 17972-4 CxF X4 Spot Color Characterization Exchange Format and ISO 19303-1 Guidelines for Schema Writers Packaging. He is the recipient of the Holzinger Award, FTA President’s Award and the Clemson Top Cat Award. Steve has a degree in photography. In 2017, he was inducted into the FTA Hall of Fame.
Charles Spontelli

Charles Spontelli

Associate Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University

Panelist Bio
About Charles: Charles has worked in some facet of the printing industry his entire career. He is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology, with a Master of Science from the School of Printing. He is an associate professor emeritus at Bowling Green State University. Charles taught courses in printing technology and color applications. Charles and William Birkett have collaborated on color calibration for printing research since 2003. William and Charles created the Colorimetric Tone Value which is now Spot Color Tone Value (SCTV), an ISO standard. Their color calibration research has evolved to become “The Optimal Method” for making calibration curves. These curves direct a printing process to optimally match any ICC or proprietary color reference.
Kenny Tucker

Kenny Tucker

Project Coordinator at the Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics at Clemson University

Panelist Bio
About Kenny: Kenny is the project coordinator at the Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics at Clemson University. He is a Clemson graphic communications graduate and started his career at Sealed Air Corp working on prepress, color management, proofing, workflow automation, expanded gamut, press characterizations and management of graphic technologies. At Anderson & Vreeland, he was a technology specialist installing plate making equipment, RIP software and inkjet proofing solutions. Most recently, at Frontier Label, Kenny was a production manager overseeing purchasing, production of narrow web labels, projects and maintenance. He joined Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics at Clemson University in 2019, where he coordinates projects, industry seminars, research and workshops.
Steve Upton

Steve Upton

President, CHROMiX Inc

Panelist Bio
About Steve: Steve Upton is president of CHROMiX, the 25-year-old Seattle-based firm providing color management products, consulting, training, and technical support to visual content creators in various industries. He is the creator of the award-winning ColorThink color profile graphing and analysis package, the architect of the Maxwell online color management system and co-developer of Curve, the de facto G7 calibration toolset. With years of computing and photographic experience, and a degree in computing science and optics, Steve is uniquely qualified to manage color fidelity in the digital realm.
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