Platemaking Lab - This lab is used for many activities including platemaking in preparation for offset printing, film output, proofing and screen printing personal designs onto student t-shirts.
Stripping Lab - Students must assemble and impose film pages in preparation for printing multiple page documents. Manually positioning the pages helps build understading of technical requirements before learning the digital process.
Print Media Agency - In this Mac lab, students work independently on projects and can meet with real clients to provide design consultations and get proof approvals. This lab uses ApogeeX software for a pdf workflow and includes an Agfa Accuset imagesetter and a Sherpa 24M colour proof printer.
Second Year Press Lab -
Printing projects on one and two colour presses is the most exciting part of producing printed material and students can see the individual colours come together to produce a full colour product. Presses include a Heidelberg QM46 and a Heidelberg GTO-52-P where students practice and learn on the industries most up to date equipment.
Mac Lab - The main computer lab in Print Media holds 30 Mac computers although the printing industry and the college use both platforms. This provides our students with experience so that they are confident on either platform and can meet the needs of employers. This lab is available to students to work on projects when no classes are scheduled and on evening and weekends.
Bindery Lab - Every printed job must be finished in some way. The Bindery Lab includes our equipment to fold, score, number, drill or glue and we can bind books using the perfect binding method, cerlox or coil as well as saddle stitch. This lab also contains our sign making equipment where students can create banners, or text and graphics with vinyl.
