…collaborates with Leicester City University, London
Borne out of the desire to contribute to human capacity development in Nigeria print and graphics industry, manpower development partner of choice – Print Academy Consulting Limited has concluded plan to hold the first ever COMMERCIAL AND NEWSPAPER PREPRESS, PRESS, POSTPRESS AND LARGE FORMAT TRAINING IN NIGERIA in collaboration with Leicester City University, London, United Kingdom.
In an exclusive interview with Managing Director of Print Academy Consulting Limited – Tony Imomoh, WHERE To Print gathered that the training programme is put together to promote and stimulate print operational standard, improve print processes and creativity as well as ensure good work ethics in the industry. ‘Our aim is to help print owners set standards in their print businesses; educate their team on efficiency; and propel them to gain competitive advantage in the market place which – in the long run – ensures print business growth and sustainability’, explained Imomoh.
Consequently, the Academy has concluded plans to hold an extensive, practical and result-oriented print production and prepress management training with special focus on commercial, newspaper and digital large format print businesses. According to Imomoh whose experience in the industry spans more than a decade with commendable performance on all aspects of print business in the industry – having worked with reputable print suppliers such as Heidelberg and HP; ‘at the end of the training programme, participants will learn among others – salient topics in a practical oriented and intensive sessions such as; how to choose paper stock, select fonts, and specify spot colors. They will also learn from our carefully selected print experts — how to create print layouts in Illustrator and InDesign packages to deliver professional print quality starting from creatives to prepress for digital and conventional presses, or onto toner-based printers, web and sheetfed offset printing presses as well as digital large format printers’.
WHERE To Print further gathered that Print Academy Consulting Limited courses cover topical issues in the graphics and printing industry such as graphics software, including: Adobe Photoshop, InDesign & Illustrator — the entire Adobe Creative Suite — & QuarkXPress, plus courses on key electronic prepress software such as Adobe Acrobat, Enfocus PitStop Professional, Mac OS X, Imposition, Color Management, Soft-proofing, and Troubleshooting Digital Files. Not only that, participants will also learn Print Marketing and Sales, Production Management, Press set up and essentials of using the right consumables, Estimation and costing likewise InDesign Insider Training: Preflight and Printing.
Imomoh disclosed that the Academy will put more emphasis on practical, ‘and as such – we are working with a number of printing presses in Nigeria to use their presses for practical while further training or customised training for specific area of focus on print production and management will be at Leicester College, London. Certificates at the end of each training programme will be issued to students and participants based on their areas of training. Such certification will be issued by Print Academy Consulting Limited in collaboration with City & Guilds and Leicester College, London United Kingdom. You can contact me for more information and to sign up for any of our training programme by email: tony.imomoh@printacademyng.com or visit www.printacademyng.com’ he concludes.
