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KBA to Host Seminar on Lenticular Printing
May 19, 2007 By: Packaging online staff Official Board MarketsWilliston, Vt.-based KBA North America is offering another comprehensive five-day seminar on lenticular printing and prepress work. Scheduled for May 29 to June 1 at KBA’s headquarters, the program brings together the company’s lenticular, printing, and marketing experts with owners and press operators of the award-winning KBA Genius 52 UV press. Lenticular printing is a special technique that involves printing an image on the back side of lenticular plastic, allowing the eye to simultaneously view alternating sections of multiple images to give the impression of 3-D, flip, or motion.
The five-day seminar is broken into succinct segments, beginning with a history of lenticular printing, describing the different animation effects, and moving into the various lens options. Jack Minton of PACUR, a lenticular lens manufacturer in Oshkosh, Wis., will give multiple presentations and lead discussions on lenticular do’s and don’ts. Minton has more than 14 years of related experience and is known for his expertise on lenticular printing and interlacing.
The seminar also explores prepress issues and interlacing, the process of striping and arranging printed information to a given pitch to match a lenticular lens; available software; pitch testing, in which the exact count or number of lenticules per inch (lpi) is measured; and mechanical pitch, the exact and true physical pitch of a lens.
Once the attendees have basic knowledge of lenticular printing, they are given time for hands-on production on the Genius 52 UV. All attendees actually produce a lenticular job on their own.
The seminar also provides information on new markets for lenticular printing, such as packaging, point-of-purchase, direct mail, collectibles, premiums, magazine covers and inserts, art posters, and large format jobs.
KBA will present the seminar with a number of its vendors, including Lenstar (www.lenstar.org); PACUR (www.pacur.com); Toray, a digital waterless plate manufacturer (www.waterless-print.com/en/), and Kodak (www.kodak.com).
All attendees completing the course are presented with certificates. To learn more about the seminar or to register, contact Crystal Flutur, KBA’s training manager, at 802-764-6140 or cflutur@kba-usa.com.
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