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2009 Coated Paper Printability Course

Attend this intensive three-day course and learn the specifics of how and why ink and paper interact in both inkjet and digital printing settings. Learn how your paper choices will affect the finished product and how to better select paper to achieve your end result. It will be a hands-on course and you’ll work with paper samples to better understand how coated paper really works.

Who should attend?
Anyone that needs to understand paper and the printing process better. This includes Engineers, Technical Managers, Technical Service, Researchers, Customer Service, Sales and Technical Marketing Professionals at pulp and paper mills, printing facilities (inkjet or digital), and University Researchers, Students and Suppliers (of ink, and/or printing equipment).

What will you learn or gain from attending?

• How and why ink and paper interact in both conventional (offset/rotogravure) and digital printing settings
• How your paper choices will affect the finished product
• How to better select paper to achieve your end result.
• New trends in inkjet and digital printing
• Gain hands-on experience in a workshop with actual paper samples.
• Better knowledge of paper requirements for different printing methods.
• How to identify the different types of printing.
• Recognize typical printing defects and the cause for these.
• Recognize the materials used in various printing processes and their impact on quality.
• Identify the properties of coated paper that affect final print quality.
• Recognize problems on press due to ink and paper interactions.
• Analyze key print attributes on commercial prints, both sheet fed and web.
• Identify methods used to measure ink, paper and fountain solution interactions.
• Future demands and outlook for print media and digital printing methods.

The level of instruction for this class will be intermediate to advanced. To fully participate in this course, a basic knowledge of the printing process is required.

This course is being held simultaneously with PaperCon’09: The industry’s most comprehensive event of the year. By participating in this course you can benefit from complimentary access to PaperCon’09 exhibits,, keynote addresses, networking, a “Lunch and Learn”, Hot Topic Breakfast and hospitality receptions. To learn more about PaperCon’09, go to www.papercon.org.

Why should your boss send you?
Because you’ll return to work with better knowledge of paper, learn about profitability, reducing waste, and reducing the risk of costly mistakes associated with printing on the “wrong” paper. In addition to learning more about different printing processes (and products from these) the main focus of this course will be on lithographic offset printing. You’ll learn the basic workflow from prepress to final product and how paper effects print quality and runnability, recognize how to improve profitability in a printing process, identify how to decrease paper and printing costs, understand graphic arts terminology and explain problem solving at the printing press, handle troubleshooting – identify if paper or printing related, knowledge how to improve production efficiency and decrease variable costs, improve ink mileage, waste management, recognize future trends and challenges in conventional/digital printing and graphic media.

Course Overview:

Sunday: May 31, 2009

• Introduction and review of basic knowledge in printing methods
• Print quality: Color perception, color gamut, substrate effect on print quality, printing defects
• Principal of Offset Lithography: Knowledge in image formation, ink transfer, setting, solidification and drying in different offset lithographic methods
• Printing machine configuration and special demands (sheet fed, heat set and cold set and offset), paper transport, varnishing and special effects
• Knowledge of paper, ink, plates, blankets, fountain solutions, etc.

Monday: June 1, 2009

• Coated paper interactions in offset printing.
• Defects caused by ink setting differences: back trapping, picking, piling, mottling types, ghosting, vanishing dots, waving, cracking, blistering, hickies,
• Predicting and testing print quality
• Laboratory methods, printing trials, layouts, analyzing
• Principal of gravure printing
• Image formation, ink transfer, setting, solidification and drying in gravure printing in flexo printing
• Finishing: trimming, cutting, folding, stitching, binding principles/ mailroom operations

Tuesday: June 2, 2009

• Digitial Printing Tutorial (in conjunction with PaperCon ’09): Experts in liquid and dry toner laser as well as continuous and drop on demand ink-jet production platforms will review principles of operation and paper requirements. Look into the future of production digital printing.
• Principals of digital printing: electro photographic and ink jet
• Image formation in different digital printing methods
• Future of print media
• Trends and forecast

View the Detailed Course Schedule.

Who is teaching the course?

Mr. Mika Anttila
Anttila is current Senior Researcher, Print Surfaces team at VTT. Previously, he was research and development manager with the Oy Future Printing Center Oy; and laboratory manager/R&D manager at UPM Kymmene Oyj, Rauma Paper Mill. He has also worked as Development manager, research scientist with Raisio Chemicals Oy; and Research trainee in VTT Graphic Labortory. Anttila holds a masters of science in engineering (1987) from Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Forest Products.

Mr. Olli Hakkila
Hakkila holds a masters of science in engineering (1987) from Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Forest Products and has been a lecturer in KCL Printing School, INSKO and other locations for 10 years. He is currently Development Manager for Stora Enso Magazine Paper, Veitsiluoto. Previously, he served as a Senior researcher at Helsinki University of Technology, where he was responsible of starting printing technology teaching. He has also worked as marketing manager for KCL where he was responsible of research information transfer and utilization in paper mills; and as a customer service engineer where he worked in product development with customers at sheet-fed and heatset web-offset printing machines. In addition, Hakkila worked as a research engineer at KCL working with new knowledge of coated paper interactions in offset printing process.

Mr. Juha Saari
Saari holds a masters degree in engineering science (1999) from Åbo Akademi University, Department of Paper Chemistry. Currently, is a Research Scientist, Print Surfaces at VTT and lectures on Printing Technology at Åbo Akademi University. Previously, he worked as a research trainee in the Paper Chemistry Laboratory at Åbo Akademi Unversity.

CEUs available
The Education Project Center of TAPPI has been reviewed and approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 1620 I Street, NW, Suite 615, Washington, DC 20006. TAPPI will award 3.7 CEUs to participants who attend at least 80% of the educational sessions and complete a final program evaluation.

Hotel Information
Renaissance St. Louis Hotel
800 Washington Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63101

PaperCon’09 and Coated Paper Printability Course participants can take advantage of a special discounted rate of $165 a night (singe/double) that includes complimentary guest room internet access. To qualify for this rate and the free internet access, you must reserve your rooms on or before May 8, 2009. To make reservations or call Marriott toll free 1.800.468.3571 (U.S.); 1.888.235.2427 (Canada); 01.800.900.8800 (Mexico); or call the hotel direct at +1.314.621.9600. Be sure to mention you’re attending PaperCon and ask for the special rate.

Avis offers special to PaperCon '09 and course participants. Call 1.800.831.8000 and refer to the code AWD: #U226600.

Registration Information
To register, or call 1.800.332.8686 (US) 1.800.446.9431 (Canada) or +1.770.446.1400 (Worldwide)

Registration Rates (Course Only)

Cancellation Policy
If you find that you have to cancel, your full registration fee will be refunded if TAPPI’s Registration Department receives written notification (fax acceptable at +1.770.446.6947 by Friday, May 1, 2009. Please note: There will be a 50% refund for all written cancellations made after Friday, May 1 but no later than 5 business days prior to the start of the conference Monday, May 25. Understandably, after this time, no refunds can be issued. Substitutions, however, will be accepted any time without a penalty.