Professional consulting available for you or your company on giclee, décor, or fine art photography

Consulting: workflow for giclee, décor, or fine art photography

Consulting or training, in ICC color profiles and color management

Consulting or training in scanning and/or digital photography, including digital capture for giclee or décor.

Consulting: what equipment, hardware, and software for giclee production

Consulting: for manufacturers relative to what features end-users wish in the next generation printers. We have over 40,000 e-mails from our readers telling us clearly what they want.

Consulting: for RIP software developers, ink, and inkjet media companies, distributors, and value-added resellers

For photo labs, artists, print shops & also for individuals

Yes, you can print giclee and decor with UV'curable flatbed printers, including using white ink on dark materials

Consulting is available worldwide, in your office, or at our university in Ohio, or in our offices in Guatemala, or at any intermediate location.

We consult in Deutsch, Español, and English. We can understand basic French, Italian, and Portuguese too.

FLAAR Schedule for 2007-2008

January 2008	If you wish to also hear Professor Hellmuth speak on Mayan archaeology, you can join the cruise in January 2008. Other speakers (on other topics) include two senior editors from Scientific American. Nicholas will speak on the following topics
February 2008	February 27- March 1: Graphics of the Americas, (printers for signage), Miami.
March 2008	March 1-4: Art Expo (giclee, décor & fine art photography), New York.
	March 27-29: ISA (printers for signage). Florida.
April 2008	April 1-3: FESPA Digital, Geneva (printers for signage). Geneva, Switzerland.
May 2008	May 17-27: Site Visit case, Zurick.
June 2008	May 27-June 10: DRUPA, Dusseldorf.
July 2008	July 2-5: Art Expo, Shanghai.
Upcoming	Photokina (photo equipment, and printers for giclee, décor & fine art photography) Cologne, September 2008.
	Photoplus (photo equipment, and printers for giclee, décor & fine art photography) New York, October 2008
	SGIA, (printers for signage), Atlanta, October 2008.
	VISCOM Spain. Madrid, Spain, October 2008.
	Graph Expo (printers for signage), Chicago, Illinois October 2008.
	VISCOM Germany. Frankfurt, Germany, October - November 2008
	VISCOM Italy. Fieramilano, Italy, November 2008.
January 2007	All-day lectures on UV-curable flatbed and roll-to-roll printers, Seoul, Korea.
	Training in lamination at Drytac headquarters, Toronto.
	Two day factory-visit and technology briefing (especially in UV-ink chemistry), Gandinnovations world headquarters, Toronto.
	Site-visit case study of a print shop with an Inca Columbia, Durst Rho 600, DuPont Artistry (textile printer).
One week at Mutoh Europe world headquarters in Oostende, Belgium; training on eco-solvent and mild-solvent printers. Four reports are the result; three are ready now. These reports are free so you can sample what we have available
Lectures over three day period on fine art giclee at Gulf Print, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
May 2007	Training in UV inks, factory-visit inspection at their world headquarters (Expedio, Tempo Q).
	HumanEyes, training in 3D photography software.
	Objet Geometries, a visit to their world headquarters and factory (3D rapid prototyping).
	Leaf digital camera backs (for Hasselblad, etc), visit to their world headquarters in Israel. (now part of Kodak)
	Scitex scanners, visit to their world headquarters in Israel (now part of Kodak).
	May 31-June 1, Zund headquarters, Switzerland, two days inspecting the Zund cutters, Zund 215 and especially the Zund 250. Training and factory visit.
June 2007	June 5-9, FESPA trade show Berlin, FLAAR shared a booth with SIP magazine (Verlagshaus Gruber).
	Late June: Vutek, visit the factory to evaluate the QS2000 and QS3200.
July 2007	July 1-8: 15th Annual Shangai International Ad, Print, Pack, Paper Expo and meetings at Xaa.
	July 9-14: Meetings at IP & I in Seoul, Korea.
	July 17 - August 16: Site-visit case study research on printers in Guatemala.

Last updated : July 4, 2007.
Previous updates: June 22, 2006.