(Useful As Training Assistants, Press Simulators Taking Off In Printshops) No time for training? Training costs are too high? Many problems prompted many printers to turn to press printing simulation trainer PSL for training assistance. The PSL, the printer's printing simulation trainer, as its name implies, is actually a flight simulator similar to a flight simulator. It is a computer system that simulates operation on a printing press. In most cases, the printers themselves purchased the PSL, a press printing simulation trainer. But sometimes they also use the printers purchased by ink manufacturers, printer manufacturers and other suppliers to print simulation trainers PSL. Some printers are very interested in this form of training, so that once they come into contact with the PSL, which the supplier provides for their own printer-printing simulation trainer, they often buy their own PSL printing press trainer. Why are printers so interested in this trainer? Regardless of whether the press printing simulation trainer PSL is used to simulate offset, flexographic or gravure processes, it can perform tasks that are not possible with other forms of training. It allows trainers to use programmatic arrangements to arrange for printer faults to occur and provide students with hands-on opportunities to operate on each press, without the need for downtime and wasted supplies when operating on a real press. RR Donnelley has sold about 20 Sinapse Graphic printing presses and training simulators PSL around the world, most of which are thermosets, and has sold about 6 coldset printing presses for publishing and gravure printing. Simulator trainer PSL. Martin Tilstone, Human Resources Manager at RR Donnelley in Knaresborough, United Kingdom, succinctly described the press emulation trainer as "a rising star product." Many printers are often surprised that the press printing simulation trainer PSL looks and actually behaves much like a real press. For example, the PSL, a sheet-fed offset printing press training simulator called SHOTS, produced by Sinapse Graphic International of Aubin, Cedex, France, is a dual-use printing control simulation and printing production simulation. Functional monitoring system. Mike Schmidt, Print Manager at Field Containers Elk Grove Village, Ill., believes that "The PSL, a press printing simulation trainer, can provide you with the full range of tools you need, including scanning densitometers that check for register and dot gain." The company has been using SHOTS for the training of printing operators since 1997. "You can even walk into the analog 'print shop' to check the overall configuration of the press. You can see the construction of the press so clearly that it is even harder to do on the actual press." The Flexographic Technical Association (FTA) in Ronkonkoma, NY also used SHOTS flexo series printer simulation simulator FlexSys in its training program. Its technical manager Cindy Cole believes that the press printing simulation training FlexSys is very effective for printing operators to understand any aspects related to the printing process such as drying temperature, ink viscosity, PH value, and ink foaming, even including incorrect ink metering, unclean or broken anilox rollers and doctor blades. The effect of web tension and web speed changes. Ms. Cole explained further, “The FlexSys that makes the press printing simulation trainer so effective is that it can simulate thousands of variable or possible changes, and all these changes come from the anilox roller, substrate, ink supplier. And the various data entered by printers and printer manufacturers, for example, if customers have been using incorrect settings for ink drying or curing, then they can use this type of printing press to print simulation trainer FlexSys. Quickly learn to identify such problems and find solutions.Another advantage of the press printing simulation trainer is that it enables printers to train qualified print operators in less time than on actual presses. The training was much faster.Dallas Morning News, the printing press director for print operator training, Steven Holder, proudly stated that he was able to simulate various kinds of printing situations that he thought might be encountered on the printing simulation trainer. You don't have to wait on the press for 6 to 9 months before you can expect a failure. "In addition, we are now More and more engaged in four-color printing, it is for us to train press operators also provides a real means faster and better in this regard. “A few years ago, Mr. Holder, whose newspaper had bought a condensation printing simulation trainer, thought that the Hallmark Greeting Cards subsidiary Litho-Krome, Columbus, Ga., and SHOTS had actually become the main basis for training plan development. The printing simulation trainer purchased two years ago has brought good results to the high-level training of printing operators, reduced prepress time in printing, reduced waste, and increased printing speed."SHOTS can be realized in a short time. Simulating various kinds of printing failures is usually much faster than the failure that the operator can actually encounter every day. Litho-Krome's lithographic technical training teacher commented that "it is a very comprehensive training tool. Another use of the Print Simulation Trainer is that it can be partially used in print skill assessments to help reduce subjective blindness in the hiring and promotion of operators. It is located at the Printing Technology Foundation in Sewickley, Pa. ( GATF) has reported that a user of SHOTS had used print simulation trainers to evaluate the printing skills before upgrading the assistant operator to an operator. Some companies including GATF have started to adopt the SHOTS test. The proficiency of the operators to be hired.The GATF launched a guidebook published by Sinapce Graphic last year to guide people on how to use SHOTS to conduct this skill assessment.The advantages of the print simulation trainer are so significant that it includes Many companies, including RRDvnnelley, have sent their print simulation trainers from one place to another for their full use. Now, not only printers are enthusiastic about using print simulation trainers, but also the printing industry associations. Similarly, some associations even cooperated with Sinapse Graphic to jointly promote Brush simulator trainer For example, FTA has not only used the FlexSys printing simulation trainer for training, but also cooperated with Sinapse Graphic to develop a new version of the printing simulation trainer, and now has completed the 2.2 version of the printing simulation trainer. The United States sells this product, and has sold six sets of printing simulation trainers to ink manufacturers, suppliers, prepress companies and printers across the country.Gravure Association of America (Rochester, NY) in Rochester, NY Also in cooperation with the Sinapse Graphic Corporation, the Gravure Gravure Simulator and PackSim, a packaging and printing simulation trainer, are now undergoing meticulous final adjustments and are scheduled for commercial use in Richmond, Westvaco, this spring. Strong support for simulation training technology Sinapse Graphic's Offset Printing Simulation Trainer was first developed in Europe and participated with the participation of GATF, Heidelberg Web, Heidelberg Network, Roland MAN Roland and Sinapse Graphic. Get continuous improvement. Current version of SHOTS This is 3.2, the SIR thermosetting web offset printing simulation trainer is version 3.4, and the condensing printing simulation trainer is version 2.4 Since the introduction of SHOTS to North America for the first time last year, GATF has been promoting SHOTS enthusiastically and it has begun to promote thermal coagulation. Print simulation trainer. "We believe that the printed simulation trainer is a great training tool. It can be used not only in teaching to show the results of difficult-to-control printing parameters, but also through the personal practice of each printing operator. Strengthen its ability to solve practical problems," said Jim Workman, GATF's director of training programs. How does a supplier look at a printed simulation trainer? Although the print simulation trainer seems to compete with the supplier's own service and training programs, the reality is that they have no choice. Many printing suppliers, including printer manufacturers, paper manufacturers, printing plates, blankets, and other consumables suppliers, have purchased Sinapse Graphic's printing and printing simulation trainer to strengthen their technical service capabilities. Customer on-site simulation training incorporates its service content. Among the many suppliers that have adopted the print simulation trainer are the U.S. ink USInk manufacturers of Sun Chemical's newspapers and periodicals. They purchased the Sinapse Graphic's condensation printing simulation trainer more than two years ago. It is used for the training of in-house transfer technicians, as well as for customer demonstrations and training courses. USInk believes that this training enhances the image and value of the company in the eyes of customers, and also reduces the emergency technical assistance for suppliers by exercising the actual operational capabilities of printing operators. In the course of the ink supplier's long-term training course for customers, Dennis Cheeseman, customer service manager, believes that the application of the printing simulation trainer will shift the training content from subjective description to hands-on practice. "The advantages of the print simulation trainer have been fully demonstrated in the use of the print simulation trainer and are very close to the actual printing process." Mr. Cheeseman said, “You can speed up the training process by developing a series of different programs, and training on the same content on actual printing presses can be a process of high cost and time waste.” But even if the printers themselves have already purchased The printing simulation trainer cannot also completely replace the traditional training of the supplier. For example, when Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MSJ) decided to update its Di-litho press with the new KBA Commander press, it also thought that it could only be used as a supplier for printers, although it also purchased a condensate printing simulation trainer. This kind of supplement can not completely replace the traditional printing training. “I would never think that training was too much.” MSJ's press manager thought that “the KBA training program has very good substance. We just need another tool to shorten the learning process.” The Printing Industry Association is One of the reasons for supporting training with a print simulation trainer may be that many printers do not like to hear the word “training,” but they now need to think carefully. “In the printing industry, training is an exotic thing,” said Bill Dowdell, FTA's managing director. “The printing industry has not seen printing training as part of the printing community. So now we need some companies to be able to participate in and support long-term and Systematized training methods, and will focus on the entire printing process, not just focus on platemaking, ink production or press operations." Richard Dunnington, executive vice president of GAA admitted that he also believes that the emergence of printing simulation trainer Machines, especially as the Baby Boomer training era is gradually retreating. “There is already a shortage of talented people, and Baby Boomer, who owns 40% of the labor resources, will soon begin to retreat. In the next five years, the company’s excellent training tools are of utmost importance. Baby Boomer’s retreat is only a training method. One of the many factors of change is the emergence of the Print Simulation Trainer as an important training tool.” To make professional training as productive as possible, Mr.Control Valve, Flow Control Valve, Hydraulic Control Valve, Proportional Directional Control Valve Workman of the GATF proposed that printers should apply theoretical teaching and hands-on The printing simulation trainer is better integrated. Regardless of whether the printer is trying to adopt this new training tool, he believes that the promotion and application of the printing simulation trainer is imperative. "The printing simulation trainer will be a very good tool in the printing company's training plan. It not only helps deepen the memory of training learning content, but also ensures that the training is fully successful.
