EskoArtwork donates CDI Spark imager to US college

EskoArtwork has donated a CDI Spark 2530 imager to The Harper Center of Graphics Technologies at Dunwoody College of Technology. This latest donation adds to the multiple seats of EskoArtwork packaging design and pre-press software already in place at the Minneapolis, USA-based school.

Dunwoody College of Technology offers a two-year graphics communications program divided into three tracks: design, pre-media and press. The college boasts a successful placement record with local industry; just recently, for example, six students armed with ArtiosCAD experience obtained jobs involving structural design.

With the latest CDI Spark donation, Dunwoody students are able to learn all the tasks involved in an all-digital workflow, from project design to making plates. ‘Before we got the CDI, we were using film and, let's be real, nobody is using film,’ said Dunwoody’s Shawn Oetjen. ‘It was a huge gaping hole in our workflow. We had to outsource the film for processing – there was an entire part of the workflow that we were missing. The CDI just completes the workflow – our students can really see how it all comes together.’

‘A lot of the tools that EskoArtwork has incorporated into their software are cool and fun, so they keep the students interested in learning. But they also make sense. Seeing that the students ‘get it’, and why trapping, for example, is so important, is a great thing. They aren't just listening to us explain theories – they are seeing it for themselves. I show them what to do the first time around, but then they have to do it on their own.’

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