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Seminars, Workshops, Lectures, Courses, training, available world-wide in any country

With all the new models available at ISA and FESPA 2010, FLAAR is offering personalized consulting at each trade show. You can walk-the-floor with the Senior Editor of FLAAR and get his comments on any and all printers, inks, RIP software, color management, substrates, applications, etc. So if you wish to learn about the difference between combo, hybrid, and dedicated UV printers, how latex ink compares, about textile printers, etc. contact FLAAR to obtain consulting. You can also get consulting before ISA or FESPA anywhere in the world: Dr Hellmuth was in Dubai and India last week as consultant, and will be in Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and China as consultant in the next two months. He was consulting in Korea and London in late 2009.

Educational Programs are available for

• Screen printing organizations, associations , screen printing companies who want to learn about UV-curable wide-format inkjet printing (pros and cons of this technology, and how to select the right printers (and how to avoid the wrong printers).

• Offset printers, offset printer associations, and comparable commercial printers who wish to learn how best to accommodate the reality of wide-format inkjet printers as well as narrow-press UV printers (however we do not cover label presses; we tend to cover wide-format and grand format).

• Flexo printing companies, who wish to learn about wide-format inkjet printers as an alternative. FLAAR is consulting to flexo (and offset and screen printing) commercial printers around the world.

• Photo studios, photo labs, photo print shops who want to learn about UV and difference between eco-solvent, mild-solvent, full-solvent, and UV-curable flatbed printers.

• Franchise signage print shops, family-owned print shops

• Individuals who wish to start print shops

• Trade show organizers (Dr Hellmuth has lectured for trade shows in Turkey, Dubai, FESPA (Europe), Johannesburg (South Africa) and the US.

• Printer manufacturers (FLAAR has provided Dr Hellmuth at product launches, at meetings of distributors and dealers, and to speak to clients (past, present, and future clients).

• Investors, investment banks who wish to learn which companies to buy (and which companies to avoid)

Lectures, seminars, workshops, courses and training for museums, museum organizations, park management and related support organizations

These programs are also appropriate for botanical gardens, zoos, natural history museums, and libraries.

• Digital photography for museums and national, state, and local parks

• Scanning and scanners for museums, national, state, and local parks

• Printing and Printers for exhibits and signage for museums and parks.

These are custom made for your organization. We can obviously discuss the general curriculum but equally obviously only for a serious interest. If you simply wish for us to design your own curriculum, this we can also do, as a consultant.

Courses: for universities, community colleges, museums, continuing education programs  

Dr Hellmuth has trained the key personnel of the Malta Centre for Restoration in advanced digital photography. They wanted deeper training than was normally available. The selling point for them hiring FLAAR was that Dr Hellmuth's PhD is in art history with a focus on archaeology (which naturally implies cultural heritage and preservation of ancient works of art).

The other selling point is that FLAAR is one of the few institutes in the world that actually owns every tool in advanced digital imaging:

• 80 megapixel Cruse scanner/camera, the Rolls Royce of museum digitizers
• two 48 megapixel BetterLight cameras, the Bentley of large format digital cameras for museums
• 22-megapixel medium format digital cameras (PhaseOne P25+)
• two CreoScitex scanners including the EverSmart Supreme (the best scanner for 35mm, medium format, and large format that exists outside of a drum scanner)

There is no other photographer who has this entire range (plus naturally he has Nikon and Canon 35mm digital SLR cameras and knows point-and-shoot too. So Professor Hellmuth has personal experience in the entire range of digital imaging tools, an unprecedented advantage.

And few professors have first-hand experience with this wide a range of digital imaging hardware and software.

The following courses are available:

• Digital photography 101: Introduction to digital photography equipment, practice, digital lighting, and software

• Digital photography 201: Medium Format and Large Format Digital Photography

• These courses can be specially tuned,
• Digital Photography for Museums,
• or Digital Photography for botanists, botanical gardens, and herbariums,
• or Digital Photography for Architects and Architectural Historians,
• or Digital Photography for Archaeology: field photography and also back home at the university and/or museum.
• Digital Photography for Anthropology & History Institutes (cultural preservation)

• Giclee and Décor

• Fine art photography: equipment, actual photography, and printing

• Textile printing

• Pre-Columbian architectural history: Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Zapotec, Mixtec, Toltec, Aztec

• Pre-Columbian art history: all major Mesoamerican cultures especially Olmec, Maya, and Teotihuacan

• Iconography of Maya murals, ceramic and sculptural art

FLAAR has the largest private photographic archive in the world of pre-Columbian art and architectural history. For Maya ceramics and Maya architecture this archive is larger than what is available at Harvard, as an example (larger and higher quality photographs than the Carnegie Institution of Washington archives, for example).

Format

A “lecture” is a 45 minute to 1 hour presentation. Can be one or two different topics in a morning, or an afternoon, or an evening. In some instances the host has asked for two or three hours, which we can also handle.

A “seminar” is a half day, full day, or two day program.

A “workshop” is a full day with the actual equipment at hand to demonstrate how it functions in real life.

A “course” is a semester-long course, but more likely, is concentrated over 1 week, 2 weeks, or 3 to 4 weeks. This is to make it realistic to fit into Dr Hellmuth's international speaking schedule.

Here is Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth giving a lecture in Belgrade, 2009.

This is the audience who turned out this year in Serbia to hear Dr Hellmuth give the keynote address on wide-format inkjet printing. He also lectured in Sarajevo and Zagreb.

Consulting

Consulting is available for companies, individuals, associations, museums, universities, institutes, etc.

Consulting is available for people who use the hardware or software, companies who manufacture, distribute or sell the hardware and software

Consulting is available on

• scanning, scanners for digitization and archiving projects
• digital photography & equipment
• giclee, décor, fine art photography (digitization, printing, complete workflow)
• solvent printers (eco-solvent, mild-solvent, full-solvent)
• and UV-cured flatbed, hybrid, combo, and dedicated flat, dedicated roll-fed solutions and workflow
• textile printers
• color management and RIP software.
• which OEM partners are reliable; and more importantly, which companies might be best to avoid as OEM partners.
• Which inks will replace both solvent and UV, and when.
• What is the likelihood that bio-solvent will ever be a viable ink?
• What is the likelihood that latex ink will be viable other than for HP?

Training

FLAAR can provide training to your marketing staff, to your sales staff, and to your R&D team.

We can work under NDA with your company or comparable non-disclosure agreement.

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Most recently updated August 5, 2009.

First posted July 20, 2007. Updated May 4, 2009.