The objective for printers is to improve the overall utilization of equipment, improve quality of the printed product and increase profitability through the enhanced skills of employees.

Suppliers will benefit by the training of personnel who will interact in the pressrooms of their customers"

Director Trade Association - Flexography

The simulator puts a press (2 color - 8 color) at the user’s fingertips. It operates on standard PCs, using a specialized image manipulation card and two large monitors. One of the monitors displays the press control console, and the second monitor shows the printed result.

The simulator is intended to help new printers acquire skills and to help experienced personnel sharpen and extend their existing knowledge. It plays the same sort of role as a flight simulator for pilots. It can be used in two ways: standard or problem-solving.

In the standard mode the press is perfectly adjusted, and only the trainee’s actions will cause problems. This let the operators experiment with temperature and pressure adjusments, see what happens when the viscosity changes or the ribbons advance, etc. It helps them understand the way the press works.

In the problem-solving mode, the trainee will be confronted with unexpected problems and will learn how to analyze them, how to check, what the cause might be, and how to correct the problem.

The powerful scenario generator lets experienced personnel create production problems that will allow anyone in the pressroom, from apprentice to craftsman, to learn problem-solving skills and gain knowledge that will advance his job performance and value.

Simulator users report hat they have greatly reduced the training time for new employees. They also report that they have been able to dramatically increase the confidence and skill levels of current personnel and that this decreases the average make-ready times and increases the percentage of good copies in the press run.

Offset simulators now driven by a real control console NOTE: Each Print process uses different materials and different presses - the simulators model these differences. Consult the different product pages for more details.