29 G7® Experts Certified at World-Renowned Heidelberg
G7® – Any Print Technology… Print Anywhere™
Alexandria, VA (August 6, 2019) – Idealliance, in partnership with Heidelberg, the world-renowned provider and partner for the global printing industry, hosted G7 certification and training at the Heidelberg USA technical center for 29 G7 Experts. These global G7 Experts who traveled from around the world to attend certification and training through live print production demonstration and implementation of G7 throughout the prepress to press workflow are globally certified and licensed G7 Experts & G7 Professionals to serve the print, packaging, and graphic communications supply chains. Attendees included leading print, packaging, and color management experts ranging from print service providers, prepress, color, and press technicians and operators, OEMs, print buyers, and global brands. G7 is critical to the business performance of print and packaging suppliers, and the brands and print buyers they serve through added efficiencies, profitability, and by continually raising the bar for print production quality and consistency with the support of Idealliance certified G7 Experts. Idealliance certified G7 Experts support, align, and maintain G7 Master Facilities around the globe by driving process control cultures throughout production to allow these print service providers to meet the call of brands, creatives, and print buyers regardless of print technology and application to achieve visual consistency and process control throughout all print production workflows to align Print Anywhere™ with G7®: one file, one separation, one target, one calibration, one remarkable similar visual appearance, any machine, any print technology, anywhere in the world. “Idealliance, along with these twenty-nine newly certified G7 Experts, including OEMs & technology providers, print service providers, creatives, brands, and print buyers, are proud to serve the global printing and packaging industry. Partnering with Heidelberg as a leading supplier of print and packaging technology, including process control based tools on press, gave these G7 Experts the most impactful opportunity to see how G7 leads to efficiency, quality, and meets the demands the supply chain regardless of print technology,” says Jordan Gorski, Vice President of Global Certification Programs. Upcoming G7 Trainings include: Minneapolis, MN, August 13-15; Anaheim, CA September 24-26; Brussels, Belgium October 1-3; Rochester, NY October 8-10; and many others around the globe through Idealliance’s 12 global offices. A calendar of upcoming training can be found at idealliance.org/g7training. For more information about G7 and G7 training opportunities, visit connect.idealliance.org/g7 or contact Jordan Gorski at +1 (703) 837-1096 or jgorski@idealliance.org.
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Powering the Supply Chain® Print Anywhere™ Idealliance, a global think tank, is a non-profit graphic communications industry organization with 12 strategically located offices around the world. Idealliance serves brands, OEMs, service providers in print and packaging, content & media creators, creative agencies/design teams, material suppliers, and innovators & developers worldwide. We do our work through ISO Standards Innovation, Print and Digital Workflows & Technologies Development & Integration, Technical Research, Certification, Training, Brand & Facility Auditing Programs, Brand Strategy Consulting/Premedia and serves as a Global Super Connector for brands, print buyers, service providers, & OEMs throughout the world. Our specifications have transformed the graphic communications industry by defining production workflows for color (GRACoL®, SWOP®, XCMYK™, G7®, and BrandQ®). Idealliance is the world’s foremost certifying body for competencies, systems, materials, and facilities, and Idealliance, a Liaison ‘A’ to ISO TC130, is one of the world’s largest contributors and developers of ISO standards. Join us in creating the future of our industry. www.idealliance.org | (703) 837-1070