PRINT CALENDAR
JULY
8
SGIA holds a 2:00 pm (EST) Webinar called
Social Networking and Your Business, which
focuses on how to increase the visibility of
your printing business – and brand – by
leveraging social-networking sites like
LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.
20
Printing Industries of America holds a brand-new, 2-day workshop called Total Immersion:
Digital Color, built around hands-on training
for high-quality reproduction and press
optimization. Learn terms and techniques,
benchmarking, maintenance and calibration
through test forms, as well as working with
limitations of your DFE.
23
Democrat Printing of Little Rock, Arkansas
(background), hosts the PIA’s 2-day JDF User
Group event. Established in 1871, Democrat
Printing will describe its experience with the
production code among heatset and
sheetfed printing, binding, stitching and
mailing.
11
PackPlus 2009 continues in New Delhi, India,
as this 4-day event tries to bring more
attention to one of the fastest rising print
markets in the world. According to the
event’s Website, the packaging segment in
India is growing annually at the rate of 22
to 25 percent.
21
IDEALAlliance hosts a 2:00 pm Webinar (EST)
called G7, The Buyer’s Guide. Named for
its grey scale calibration technique and
the seven ISO ink colours it requires, G7 is a
calibration methodology (not to be confused
with GRACoL) based on principles of digital
imaging, spectrophotometry, and CTP
technologies.
27
Information Management Institute holds
Digital Printing Summer Camp 2009
at Sugarloaf Mountain Hotel in Maine.
The highly technical program includes
sessions like Theory Of Ink Jet Technology,
as well as Surface Tension, Wetting and
Capillarity.
16
Deadline for entries in Canadian Marketing
Association’s annual awards program with
print-related categories like Direct 1:1 and
Integrated projects. The program showcases
the growing marketing mix between direct
mail, email, traditional print, and online
advertising.
22
SGIA holds a free 2:00 pm Webinar (EST)
called Brown Bag, which is organized as
a panel discussion to cover the current
state of screen-printing in North America
– a topic complicated by the rise of viable
production-strength inkjet production.
31
PrintAction magazine opens
up its call for submissions
into the 5th-annual
Environmental Printing
Awards, to be held
in Toronto on
February 11, 2010.
