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Broadview, Illinois, United States

Niles, Illinois, United States

Niles, Il

●Certified G7 Expert since June 2017, and Certified Color Management Professional by Idealliance. ●Maintain four Epson Proofers with Oris Color Tuner. ●Work in Adobe creative suite, expert level in photoshop handling RGB, Lab, CMYK, color managed conversion. Color Correction and retouching. ●Work in Esko Automaition Engine, imposing files for press. ●Handle prepress files in support of two Vutek digital wide format inkjet UV presses. ●Support one indigo digital press ●Support two 81 inch, one 64 inch, and one 56 inch KBA sheetfed presses, 2 of those are UV capable. ●Support one Komori 40 inch UV sheetfed press. ●Work with Metrix automated imposition software.

Wood Dale, Illinois

● Manage Four Epson Proofers with Heidelberg Prinect Color Tools and Fiery Rip proofing system. ● Maintain quality of contract proofs and Certification of Epson Printers to Gracol Standards. ● Manage Color on 2 Vutek Wide Format digital presses, Flatbed and Roll to Roll.● Manage Color on Igen 4 digital press.● Manage Color on 3 offset Komori Sheetfed presses, build ICC profiles, plate curves, 40 inch Conventional 6 Color, 40 inch UV 6 Color, 28 inch Conventional. ● Manage Color on all printing devices with Press Sign 8, Scoring sheets compared to Gracol Standards.● Extensive use In Photoshop, Retouching/Color Correction, Layering, Working in RGB, Lab, CMYK, special pantone colors, Varnish layers.● CMYK Color matching to product or Pantone matching. Use of x-rite tools to read and convert Lab to CMYK.● Working knowledge in Indesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Pit stop.

Niles, Illinois

● Manage five Epson Proofers and Oris Color Tuner proofing system. ● Maintain quality of contract proofs and Certification of Epson Printers to Gracol Standards. ● Handle electronic file prep and digital printing operations in a high production environment in both a digital and sheet-fed press environment.● Work in Adobe Creative suite, Acrobat Pro, Pit Stop.

Wheeling, Illinois

Assist in all aspects of Color Quality working with Client supplied images and digital files. Digital Color Correction and Retouching, Managing Digital Proofing on Epson and Kodak Approval Contract proofs. Maintain Color Management on proofing devices. Assist with color on Offset sheetfed and digital presses. I assist Sales staff and their clients when needed to view color and markup necessary color correction/retouching. View color on press when needed. Knowledgeable in all aspects of press and prepress technology, from digital photo studio to image manipulation, digital proofing and page assembly in Adobe Creative Suite and final output to offset sheetfed presses where images meet paper.

Senior Color analyst and Retoucher/Scanning and Color Correction. Digital image assembly of pages for press ready files.

Color Specialist- Scanning/Retouching

Color analyst/ Retoucher/ Scanning

Crystal Lake Now Woodstock

Prepress Specialist/ Scanning/ Color Imaging

General Studies/ Photography

Digital Imaging