GACS: 2011

Hello,

GACS very happy to announce huge success of their 5th Printing Technology Workshop for Designers and Printers.

Conducted by:

Supported by:

Mr. Narendra Parmar - Ahmedabad.

Locations:

(1) GACS

306-307, Sorath Plaza,
2/10, Bhaktinagar Station Plot,
Rajkot - 360 002.
Tel.: 0281-2468027
Mobile: +91 9825622465

(2) PHOTOKINA CHEMICALS

Participants:

Mr. Hardik Chauhan - Rajkot
Mr. Subhashbhai Patel - Talod
Ms. Pooja Sheth - Ahmedabad
Mr. Mayur Kavar - Morvi
Mr. Hitesh S. Patel - Navsari
Mr. Milind Vadekar - Mumbai
Mr. Jaydevsinh Solanki - Vadhwan
Mr. Kintu Parekh - Rajkot
Mr. Ashwin Chauhan - Rajkot
Mr. Murtuza Bharmal - Rajkot
Mr. Shemal Daxini - Rajkot

Expert Lectures provided by:

Mr. Vishal Ambasana
Color Theory & Adobe Photoshop

Mr. Pankaj Paun
Design Layout with Adobe InDesign

Mr. Jagdish Sheth
Screen Making Techniques

Industrial Visits:
Gujarat Printers- Offset Plate making and Printing Unit - 19"x 25" Komori at Rajkot
Gujarat Graphic Pvt. Ltd. - Offset Printing Unit - 28"x 40" Mitsubishi
Photokina Chemicals - Ahmedabad.

Activities:

1st day: 10th September, 2011
Morning session was about Introduction to Adobe InDesign, in which complete details provided by Mr. Pankaj Paun.
How to work with Adobe InDesign?
Details about InDesign Tools
Showing examples of InDesign Creation
Book-work, Magazine, Brochure Layout, Stationary etc. jobs can be done in very easy and error free way.
Working with Adobe InDesign will provide you control over design tools and this is an important part that if you can control your design you can create any designs.
Mr. Pankaj insisted participants to use on a single platform of Adobe.
Only with that you can achieve your goal of excellent design creation.

Afternoon session jointly conducted by Mr. Vishal Ambasana and Mr. Pankaj Paun.
This session was dedicated to "How to be Creative...?"
Participants were make aware by importance of Branding and Logo Creation, and also taught that how to start thinking creatively? Mr. Vishal added that it is a sequential process that you can follow for any kind of creation and main thing is that you have to connect your thought with the required output, only when you can convince and satisfy your client's need.
During this session they were witness of process of New Logo creation and after that they were given project to create a new logo on another theme.

Within 2-3 hours all participants created an awesome logos and they are very near to final production which was selected by a real customer. The purpose of this process is to generate new ideas and thinking to make their output more better and realistic.

2nd Day: 11th September, 2011
Morning session was conducted by Mr. Vishal Ambasana and it was about "COLOR THEORY". In this important session he taught participants about "How to identify color?" only after that you can select exact colors and also can edit them to match with your original product color.

This session was very interesting for all participants because they were facing lots of problems due to incorrect color printing, their jobs get rejected and client satisfaction was not there only due to wrong color representation.

Mr. Vishal taught everything with perfect examples like "Clothes", "Tiles", "Skin Tone" etc. On special demand of small offset printers he added session of Black and White conversion of Multicolor Photographs.

This was the best session among all of the other as per participants feedback.

In after lunch session all participants were visited to Gujarat Grafik Pvt. Ltd. - Metoda.
Where they witness complete offset printing process starting from plate clamping, inking, dampening, feeder, delivery. They also learned about how to register your starting copies, they also taught about an importance of Cutting, Registration and Creasing Marks in design and Printing.

At GGPL Mr. Dinesh Khambhayata - Manager shown lots of different substrates which were printed with Mitsubishi Offset Printing Machine - like Duplex (700 gsm), NT Sheets, Plastic Sheets, Non-woven cloth, Canvas etc. After looking such samples all participants said that they never thought about printing of such substrate with offset machine.

This this was very informative visit for all the participants.

3rd Day: 12th September, 2011

This was the day on which all participants with GACS team went to visit Photokina Chemicals, Changodar, Ahmedabad.
Mr. Jagdish Sheth - Owner and Trainer at Photokina invited all the participants to get detailed training about Screen Making.
At sharp 10.00 total 14 persons were reached Photokina, they welcomed by Mr. Jagdish Sheth and Ms. Pooja Sheth followed by breakfast and tea.
Session started by Mr. Jagdish and explained each and every details for best screen making and exposing, they arranged one by one session of theory and practical, so each and every participants got complete knowledge and also they worked with latest screen making equipments.

Phtokina Chemicals and GACS both awarded with Certificates.
You can also review complete process of workshop with the help of following photographs.

Please don't forget to provide your valuable comments.

Thanks a lot.

Pankaj Paun
GACS

Mr. Narendra Parmar visited during 2nd day of workshop.

GACS participated in SPAI “Cross Country Exhibition” held at Ahmedabad, Morbi and Rajkot.

Screen Printers’ Association of India organized “Cross Country Table Top Exhibition” at 3 locations of Gujarat and Saurashtra. Gujarat Academy of Creative Studies participated on all 3 locations with their innovative education for Printing Technology. All 3 locations got huge support from printing professional visitors. All visitors were pleased to know about Printing Education started at Rajkot and appreciated such nice activities done by GACS.

Gujarat Academy of Creative Studies heartily thankful to SPAI for organizing such exhibitions, it helps a lot to reach printing professionals from small towns to share new technologies with them becomes very useful to grow their business and with the help of technology updates they can earn maximum from Printing business.

During this exhibition GACS announced new and very innovative course “Offset Printing Technique”, the course duration will be of 2 months and not required any previous experience of printing field. Course is fully based on theory for basic rules which is audio/visual and maximum on practical training. Heidelberg Offset Printing Machine will be used for training purpose.

Course includes detailed training of following topics:

Basic Rules, Sheet Fed Offset Process, Feeder Unit, Paper Size and Paper travel settings, Printing Unit, Inking Unit, Ink Settings, Dampening Unit, Ink and Dampening Solution Supply, Color Theory and Color Control, Registration matching, Sheet Reversal / Perfecting, Quality checking for Printed Sheets, Control during running, Drying methods, Finishing and Folding, Machine Washing and Job changing.

During training students will print on different kinds of Paper and materials. During this course GACS will provide number of Industrial Visits to get more idea about all printing press and it’s process also Guest Lectures provided by Industry Experts to share their experience with students.

GACS announced their “5^th Printing Technology Workshop” for Printers, Designers and DTP Operators - held on 10-11-12^th of September, 2011. Workshop timing will be 10.00 am to 6.00 pm. During this workshop GACS will provide very useful information and tricks and tips about Adobe Software like In Design and Photoshop, Color Theory, A special session on How to think Creatively?, and Live Printing Job with Komori (19”x25”) and Mitsubishi (28”x40”) and Screen Printing with UV ink and UV curing. People who are interested to join workshop requested to book their name before 7^th of Sept. at GACS - 306/307, Sorath Plaza, 2/10, Bhaktinagar Station Plot, RAJKOT – 360 005. Tel.: 0281-2468027, +91 9825622465 - Mr. Pankaj Paun. Registration charges will be Rs.1000/- per person.