Apologies to those of you who are not interested in colour management and have to read these articles before you get to the interesting parts of our email Apologies to those of you who are not interested in colour management and have to read these articles before you get to the interesting parts of our email newsletters. However, the combination of email newsletters and advertising in our magazine and our website seems to be working although I must admit that we still have to sell something that we thought many more people would be clamouring for. Sometimes we meet a person from a company likely to need this kind of human resource development, find an instant and positive reaction, and then it turns out they have forgotten about it.

Obviously the opportunity to train someone in your company for five days and for them to learn practical colour management is not on top of the list for most of you. I think it should be, especially if you have bought a CtP or a new or good condition automated multicolour press. What are you going to do with these assets to utilise them properly?

I can also understand if your company has no one who you think is qualified to take this course or who will be able to pass it or to bring something back to the company. This is possible but precisely what we wanted to highlight by offering the course: that there is no way forward except by creating the right kind of qualified people who can use the new digital colour technologies to standardise printing, increase quality and decrease mistakes and wastage. Does it not make sense to invest five days on someone in your organisation to make your Rs. 2 to 10 crore worth of CtP and printing equipment work? Don't your customers deserve more accurate proofs and better quality print? And if you don't have such a person is it not time you hired someone for the next opportunity?

The update. Well we already have fourteen registrations for the Delhi course and the rest of the twenty seats will be likely taken up teachers and students from North India. In the Chennai course we already have nine registrations and can accommodate perhaps five or ten more candidates. Two or three registrations are in the pipeline so here too you have to hurry just in case you are interested. As most of you know by know the faculty of the course consists of Paul Lindstrom of Malmo University in Sweden and Pongtorn Juntarawatt of Gretag Macbeth. Epson is the main sponsor of the course and both Don Bosco Technical institutes and printing faculty at the Department of Engineering at Anna University where the course are being held have been very helpful.

The registration fee is Rs. 25,000. For women candidates the registration fee is Rs. 15,000. The information for the course is available on www.ippstar.com where you can register on-line. And it is also available on www.indianprinterpublisher.com .You can email me at naresh@ippmail.com or call me on my cell phone at 9811172224.