iLEARNING+: Essential Training for Wide-Format Producers

The iLEARNING+ online training platform, created by PRINTING United Alliance, offers a bevy of resources to assist printing businesses, including those whose focus is in wide-format. With numerous training modules to choose from, addressing topics as wide ranging as production and sales, the platform is an essential resource for effective, affordable training.

While the best way to learn what iLEARNING+ has on offer is to review the course and resource listing online, the list below highlights a handful of resources that are standouts for the wide-format space. They range from fundamental, foundation-building training to addressing current and emerging opportunities. What training does your team need?

Wide-Format Printing Essentials
Whether it’s drumming or basketball, a focus on the fundamentals is essential. The same applies to wide-format. This introductory module is a strong tool for companies, for instance, exploring the wide-format opportunity or seeking to add the technology to an existing shop. Further, it’s a great way to train new teams or new employees about the segment, its technologies, and how different it is from other printing segments.

Print Production for Designers
For graphic and production designers who have not worked within a digital printing production environment, this module provides foundational training. It helps them understand factors and considerations that can literally serve as the dividing line between success or failure, or between pretty good and amazing. This training helps ensure that designers of digital projects can do the job right.

Spot Color Management for Digital Printing
With so much of wide-format printing associated with marketing for brands and corporations, brand colors loom large. But brand colors often include spot colors that are either outside of the standard CMYK color gamut or are difficult to produce accurately in non-color-managed settings. This training provides valuable strategies production professionals can use to make sure spot colors are produced as accurately as possible (and customers are as happy as possible).

Expanded Color Gamut Printing
One way printer manufacturers are working to expand access to brand and hard-to-reproduce colors is to offer expanded color sets, where, for instance, green, orange, purple, and even red inks are added to the printer’s ink set. While the result is a widening of the machine’s color gamut, its success in doing so requires greater knowledge on the part of those producing expanded color gamut work. This training module helps maximize to the investment in expanded color and make it a reliable part of profitable production.

Sublimation Printing Essentials
While the use of dye-sublimation for graphic applications has seen massive expansion in the past several years, and is still viewed as a strong opportunity for wide-format producers seeking to add to their product offering, dye-sublimation itself continues to be a “different animal” compared to other wide-format platforms. This training is a must-do for any company seeking to expand into dye-sublimation, or to raise the general understanding of the process within their shops.

Affordable, Effective Training

The education platform at iLEARNING+ features high-quality content that’s affordable, thus shortening the ROI of your investment in professional training. And, members of PRINTING United Alliance receive 20% off all courses and certifications. iLEARNING+ is a winning equation: quality content plus the industry-building support of the Alliance equals a stronger foundation for business owners, employees, educators and students.

For more information, and to see a complete listing of courses and certifications offered by PRINTING United Alliance’s iLEARNING+ platform, visit ilearningplus.org