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Equipment donations enhance printing labs

Students returning to the School of Printing Management and Sciences this fall will find enhanced labs, thanks to recent equipment donations valued at nearly $130,000.

Among the acquisitions are a Scanmaster 4500 drum scanner, Scanmaster 2500 flatbed scanner, and Trident Separator Edition software application from Howtek, Inc. SPMS installed the scanners in the desktop color scanning center of the electronic color imaging lab, and will incorporate them into several undergraduate and graduate courses in color separation, imaging and control.

"We are very excited that Howtek has selected RIT to receive this donation," says Joe Noga, professor and graduate program coordinator. "Access to products such as the Scanmaster 4500 and the award-winning 2400 is invaluable."

The school's gravure education program also received equipment grants, including a publication gravure press simulator from OMG Cerutti. The gravure printer's version of a flight simulator, this virtual reality system enables instructors to program printing defects that students must identify and correct.

Also added to the gravure lab is a video web monitoring device, the SuperHandyScan from BST ProMark. Used for quality control, the equipment lets students view the print on a moving web. The overall web can be scanned and displayed, as well as specific areas of a job using zoom magnification.

SPMS received the equipment through agreements with the Gravure Association of America and the Foundation of the Flexographic Technical Association.

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