Research Fields
The main research areas of the laboratory and their content are defined as follows:
Graphic arts administration and management
- Customer management – cost estimation – Costing, financial management
- Design and editing of data production of printed and electronic media
- Administrative and business graphic arts management, workflow management, production organization and planning
- Quality control, design and implementation of production standards and specifications
- E-commerce and web-to-print management systems
- Business models in the graphic arts-packaging industry
- Support and development of equipment and systems, work of a security technician
- Sales (in machine and equipment dealerships)
- Application development – software, Digital Media Workflows, Elaboration of studies in the industry
Management and editing of publishing content and data
- Publications and publishing systems
- Premedia Technologies
- Cross-media production and publishing
- Digital Media Production
Graphic arts and printing color
- Measurement, certification and comparison of colors and inks,
- Color management
- Color management systems
- Color quality control systems and color printing
- Issuance of a printing ink recipe
Pre-Press
- Text, image and page editing
- Manage, convert and format digital files
- Data output on film, or printing plate
- Color management and color corrections
- Photo transfer and construction of printing plates or rollers
- Color separations and color corrections
- Electronic Imposition – Step repetition
- Processing and production of color proof
- Control of digital pdf files – (Preflight systems)
- Improvement, output systems CTP, CTF, CTS, digital data output of publishing content
Printing – main methods of modern printing
- Offset – Lithography
- Printing
- Flexography
- Silkscreen printing
- Digital printing
- Tampon printing
- Functional printing
- 3D printing
- Printed electronically
Reprint-Closures
- Bookbinding (industrial-traditional-artistic)
- Box making
- Paper – cardboard processing and other printing and non – printing substrates
- Embellishment and special finishing processes (eg. Laminating, Varnishing,Embossing, Die Cutting etc.)
Packaging
- Packaging design – Flexible, rigid – compact packaging, label, stands & POS design (Point of Sale)
- Materials, inks and printing substrates
- Special pre-printing digital file management systems for packaging production
- Editing and formatting digital files for printing plates – rolls of packaging prints
- Identification, certification and color processing on the packaging
- Printing, finishing – finishing of packages
- Labeling, printing and imprinting of codes, storage and transport systems for the supply chain.
- Sustainability, environmental protection, circular economy
