Craig Maalis Email & Phone Number

Shakopee, Minnesota, United States

Working with an enterprise team to develop new workflows in Automation Engine.Creating new color workflows for various output devices. RGB, ECG, and continued G7 compliance.

Minnesota

Agency, Prepress or Printing clients.Set up color-critical workflows from monitor to proofing to press.

Cupertino, California, United States

I was contracted by Apple through Aquent. Working at Apple was amazing. Color management with print production managers, creatives, and several cross-functional teams from various spheres. On the production end, I worked with prepress vendors and printers globally.

Shakopee MN

Color manage the number one large format facility in the United States featured in Printing Impressions. Provide additional support for our other four facilities throughout the country. Wrote our initial proposal to receive free software and proofers for our prepress departments at all locations based on our plate consumables. Printing consists of offset.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Work with a management team to develop workflows in Esko Automation Engine which save time, improve accuracy and make us more efficient. Develop workflows in Adobe Creative Suite, manage CGS software on Epsons and help train mac operators. Color management of GMG and HPZ3200s both locally and at client locations. Lead on color management for Target as well.

Office manager and lead tech with the Oris suite of software. We have several products related to the color management of prepress, print and design agencies. These include Color Tuner Web, Pressmatcher, Ink Saver and our online color mangement software, Approve. We match digital presses to offset, save ink for printing facilities and use an iterative.

Extensive color and retouching. This could involve Photoshop or jobs being pulled off press for color issues and adjusting color via InDesign, Illustrator or pulling apart a furnished PDF and editing that. In addition, matching custom colors on their proofing system and building LUT (Look Up Tables) in the Oris RIP and Prinergy System.Now G7 certified by.

• Operations Management
• Color Management - locally (in plant), nationally or globally
• Prinergy System - InSite, Matchprint Virtual, Process Plans for Prepress, i.e. hot folders
• Prepress - I can work in all major applications
• Graph Expo, GUA, IPA seminars and attending classes such as Rules Based Automation for Prinergy, G7 methodology, etc.
• Technical Sales Support

I started as a typesetter which morphed into prepress in 1991. This was the early days of desktop publishing with Quark 3, Pagemaker 4, Illustrator 3, etc. Direct to plate was not an option at this time. I ran film to an Agfa Imagesetter.Jessen Press was a small company. Many times I would meet with the customer, receive their files or design their.

Bachelor Of Science, Communications, Graphic Design Minor

Activities and Societies: Wrote for the SCSU Chronicle, Member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (A.A.S.), Information Technology Management - Web Development