FTA announces Virtual Forum 2020

Each day of Virtual Forum 2020 will feature a pair of technical sessions spread between the morning and afternoon. The schedule of sessions is as follows (all times ET):

Wednesday, April 22:

• 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. – An abbreviated version of the FTA Awards Banquet Presentation
• 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Contrast in Print Technologies: Preprint vs. Postprint: Comparing preprint and postprint tech, and how corrugated printers and their customers can choose the right process for each job
• 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Press Optimization: Straight from the Mouths of Printers: Establishing consistent print quality, workflow stability and efficiency of operations, through press optimization

Wednesday, April 29:

• 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Color Consistency: Achieving the Target: How using hardware to capture data and software to visualize it allows production crews to print to the numbers and ensure color consistency
• 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Inside the Minds of Brand Owners: Why We Care: Brand owners discuss the ways in which color is important and how its importance affects their package-branding decisions

Wednesday, May 6:

• 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Innovation & Technology Born from Frustration: How color is affected by ink, anilox and plate selection—and improved by cutting-edge technologies—along with finding the best combination of consumables
• 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – FQC: Exploring Technology & Defining Value in Packaging: Technology advancement born from in-depth research conducted by industry members and students of flexography

The three remaining sessions from Forum 2020 will take place later this year at the Fall Conference:

• Evaluation, Optimization, Control: The Complete Plate Making Package
• Print Quality Scoring: Friend or Foe?
• The Defectives II: A “Virtual” Guide to Troubleshooting

FTA members receive complimentary registration for the three-day event, while non-member registration will cost USD200.