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The meeting began with Defining the Race , in which a panel, led by Nagle,mimicked a pre-production meet- ing, dissecting variables and obstacles encountered, discussed the design requirements, and identified the consumables and materials used. The panel also fea- tured Joe Tuccitto, Sean Teufler, Dan Uress, Catherine Haynes,AJ Grome,Ann Michaud, Bobby Congdon, and Mark Samworth Bobby Congdon, Assistant Director at Sonoco Insti- tute and Christopher Teachout, Technical Sales Sup- port for Max Daetwyler Corp., led the discussion on Empowering the Pit Crew .Virtual reality (VR) is gear- ing up to take a new role in press operator training. The presenters discussed how VR can provide cost-ef- fective, zero-waste and scalable training. The session showed a new flexographer how to set up and run a virtual flexo press. Tools of the Trade Optimizing the Tools for the Race examined the importance of performing a print optimization to de- termine the prepress requirements, ink densities and press settings prior to fingerprinting.The consumables that were selected for the project were discusses, in- cluding the attributes that led to their selection and how they performed on press. Catherine Haynes, All Printing Resources, present- ed in the Rounding the Curves session, focusing on fingerprinting. She explained the two fingerprints and their differences, then showed a live demonstration of a fingerprint run on a VR press. The session focused on how the fingerprint data is used in prepress and where the curves are applied in the RIP.A.J. Grome,VP Sales & Marketing for E.C. Shaw Company, further dis- cussed optimizing operating parameters. Taking a Process Control Lap session opened with Mark Samworth discussing press characterization in a CRPC-6 workflow. Samworth discussed how utilizing a printer’s control target to print back to the values obtained during the fingerprint can enhance the quality of the characteri- zation run. The ways in which ICC profiles are used in prepress across all devices were explored.Attendees could see a VR press perform the characterization run while printing back to values on the adjusted printer’s con- trol target. FTA President Mark Cisternino and FTA Director of Education Joe Tuccitto led the Finding and Training Tomorrow’s Workforce session. They provided a sum- mary of FTA’s year-long and industry-wide workforce
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