The course

This course has been replaced by the NVC Course Printing of Packaging. Click here for more info and start dates.

After completing this course you are able to judge the printing quality of your packaging using different criteria and if possible implement improvements.

During the course the following questions will be answered:

• How to improve the quality of our packaging printing?
• On what areas can costs be saved?
• In what situations can we choose for digital printing, gravure, flexo or offset?
• Can we change the packaging material without changing our existing printing technique?
• How to improve our profitability during discussions with suppliers/customers?
• Solving printing problems already in the prepress stage?

This three-day course will take place at the NVC Netherlands Packaging Centre in Gouda, the Netherlands and at printing companies.

Preference for online learning?
If you prefer the online course (you can participate from any place you wish, without any travel costs, with an adequate internet connection) with a LIVE tutor, please click here for more information about the English online NVC E-Course Printing of Packaging.

More information?
Do you have questions and/or would you like to receive more information, please contact us. We can also go through the list of references. We can be reached via education@nvc.nl or +31-(0)182-512411.

For whom?

This three-day course is the choice for employees, working at producers of packaged products or retail, responsible for the (improvement of) quality, safety and efficiency of packaging printing in their organisation or at their customers.

Previous participants include packaging and product developers, marketers, graphical designers , quality control officers and R&D personnel. You can find testimonials at Reviews.

Please contact us to go through the list of references. We can be reached via education@nvc.nl or +31-(0)182-512411.

Programme

Day 1:

• Prepress and workflow management
• Company visit: prepress
• Printing techniques for digital printing, gravure, flexo and offset
• Color management

Day 2:

• Recognition of printing techniques: digital printing, gravure, flexo and offset
• Trends in printing techniques
• Substrates: i.a. paper, paperboard, glass, plastic, metal
• Cost price
• Quality management and assurance

Day 3:

• Company visit: packaging printing
• Printing inks: i.a. properties, threatment, migration
• Legislation: i.a. Declaration of Compliance, Food Safety, Labelling

Tutors

Our tutors are professionally active in specific fields of the course programme, which enables all the newest issues and developments to be quickly incorporated into the course.

Certificate

After completing this course and when participated adequately you will receive the NVC-certificate ‘NVC Course Printing of Packaging’.

More information?

More information?
Do you have questions and/or would you like to receive more information, please contact us. We can also go through the list of references. We can be reached via education@nvc.nl or +31-(0)182-512411.