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