Mission Possible: A Mutual Strategy for Creatives and Prepress Professionals

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Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It... Attend These Webinars to build stronger partnerships and achieve greater success! This webinar series addresses the issues that arise as creatives and prepress professionals work with one another to achieve their mutual goals. Produced in cooperation with PIA/GATF's Mission Possible Team, our secret agents will use innovative instructional methods to teach the concepts and techniques needed by both sides to efficiently produce high-quality, effective graphics and print jobs.

Creative professionals: learn how to avoid those frustrating and unnecessary production delays by learning how to make design decisions with knowledge of the implications on all areas of production.

Prepress professionals: learn how to build partnerships with your designers and creative partners to produce jobs in a more cost-effective and trouble-free manner.

Session 1: Creating Bulletproof PDFs

Session 2: Color Appreciation

Session 3: Proofing and the Press Check

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Mission Possible Agents

D-CLASS: PIAGATF-19702001
PROFILE: MARIN, JOSEPH

Call Sign: RGBman
Alias: Max Kollor

Height: 5'11"
Weight: 160

Characteristics: Left-handed, able to discriminate slight variations in color.

Training/Special Skills: Master color guru, PDF creation and manipulation expert, wrote the book on process control.

Languages: English (various dialects), Italian, German, Russian, Arabic, Hungarian, Polish, and French.

Education: Bachelors in Commercial Offset Lithography.

Experience: Recruited spring of 26th year, second generation lithographer.

Exploits with PIA/GATF: As principal prepress instructor, Marin teaches a variety of training programs and is known throughout the industry for his prepress intelligence. He travels the country sharing his knowledge with other operatives including the nation's largest annual graphic arts trade show, GRAPH EXPO. Marin authored the Process Controls Primer and co-authored the PDF Print Production Guide.

Personal: Began printing career in high school, afraid of heights, comfortable in public speaking situations.

D-CLASS: PIAGATF-19702006
PROFILE: RYAN, TRACEY

Call Sign: Freelancer
Alias: Camille Leon

Height: 5'2"
Weight: 112

Characteristics: Left-handed, blurred vision in right eye from overuse of computer, bullet wound to the left shoulder received during fight with pressman at press check.

Training/Special Skills: photojournalism, eye for detail, keyboard short-cut superwoman, color control freak, linguistics, and yoga.

Languages: English (various dialects), Unix, Linux, French, Taiwanese, Mandarin, Arabic, Japanese, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Uzbek, and Urdu.

Education: Life. Bachelors in Communications Media.

Experience: Recruited Fall of 27th year.

Exploits with PIA/GATF: Ryan has become a double agent for the organization-once a prepress operative, now specializing as a graphic designer. Responsibilities encompass publications, direct mail, annual reports, catalogs, and website design. Ryan is also charged with instructing on the designer's arsenal of software for such programs as PIA/GATF's Orientation to the Graphic Arts workshop. Membership in covert organization called AIGA. Special mission to infiltrate HOW conference annually and steal top-secret creative ideas.

Personal: Mac enthusiast; creative inspiration found in nature, music, and life.

Mission Possible: A Mutual Strategy for Creatives and Prepress Professionals

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