Artwork Systems’ workshops prove a hit with delegates

The Artwork Systems workshop on Nexus workflows, which the company held at its new Redditch, UK technology center last week, proved to be a big hit with delegates, some of whom have already signed up for future courses. The two-day event, hosted by Artwork Systems senior UK product specialist Nigel Wild, was the first of a series of workshops that Artwork Systems is holding over the next six months for operators of its software and systems.

Kristian Wells, pre-press manager at James Townsend & Sons in Exeter, which supplies high quality litho and flexo wet glue labels, thought that the workshop event was so beneficial that he has already booked operators to go on the ArtPro workshop, while he is now booked to go on the screening and calibration course.  ‘The advice we got at last week’s event on implementing XML has been so useful that we’ve almost halved the amount of workflows we have. This has increased productivity and by using XML we have much more control,’ said Wells. ‘We learnt lots of other handy tips during the two days and it was useful to talk to other operators and Nexus users from the same field.’

Paul Taylor is part of the IT department at Lincolnshire repro house V & W Graphics, which supplies repro to leading packaging/flexo printers. ‘I’ve been using a Nexus workflow system for about seven years but even with this level of experience I still learnt some new tricks from the two-day workshop,’ he said. ‘Artwork Systems is constantly evolving its software so a concentrated “hands on” event like this was very useful. I’ve come away with several new ideas on how to improve our existing workflows and implement new features into the workflows to further increase productivity.’