Finishing & Screen Printing

GBC Onsite Operator and Process Training Saves Time, Money and Reduces Waste By as Much as 80% in the First Six Months

Tuesday 15. September 2009 - GBC, the market leader in document finishing, introduces expanded onsite professional training for wide format lamination. Without proper training, industry experts have suggested the average shop will experience up to 50% waste in the finishing department.

Proper training by skilled GBC training professionals can reduce waste by as much as 80% in the first six months making way for increased revenues and productivity*. This new training will be demonstrated in the GBC booth # 213 at Print ‘09, held at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL on September 11-16, 2009.

Onsite Operator and Process Training is available now and ranges from $1,200 to $3,750 depending on the equipment. Call 1-800-723-4000 or go to www.gbcconnect.com to order or contact your local GBC sales representative.

Articles in graphic arts industry publications are citing employee training and development as being essential to every business. Nothing beats on the job training for employee skill development. Experienced professional trainers help people understand and perform tasks they need to be successful. The onsite training provides employees a chance to develop new skills, gain hands-on experience, stimulate professional growth, and learn new troubleshooting skills. Lamination finishing departments benefit from this training through increased productivity from skilled operators and satisfied employees, improved workflow, and cost savings from waste reduction. With skilled operators and less waste, the GBC training can pay for itself in less than 3 months*. Companies who make it a point to train their employees realize not only short term profit potential but also long term overall value gained from more skilled operators.

The GBC customized training begins with a customer evaluation to fully understand the customers’ business needs. A qualified GBC training professional with extensive industry experience performs hands-on training utilizing the customers’ equipment, in their facility, working with their customers’ applications.

Training involves various lamination areas of expertise including equipment controls and components, numerous lamination processes, finishing techniques and tricks, troubleshooting, and care and maintenance. Process training in itself can include the proper loading and unloading of film, webbing the laminator, operator hands-on experience, building the primary customer application, and identifying the best workflow components.

Onsite professional training for wide format equipment will increase profits through the ability to better leverage a print shops existing wide format laminators. The benefits of training and developing people are imperative to building educated, experienced teams within the organization to help drive bottom line earnings. Current customized professional training is now available for these GBC laminator models: Artic 1064WF, 640t, 2064Ct, Titan 1244WF/1264WF, 2064WF, Falcon 3064WF and Orca 4064WF.

* Results may vary. GBC will conduct a customized ROI calculation for each customer.