Hands On - Open Houses
Branch Training Events
Our annual Branch Training Events allow Johnson Plastics to deliver current, live sublimation training directly to our customers at to one of our eight U.S. branch distribution facilities. At the same time, these events provide a venue for any walk of customer to speak one-on-one with a sublimation expert about their individual sublimation questions, needs or issues. In addition to the expert sublimation attention, you'll also meet the other experts at Johnson Plastics who keep our thousands of customers supplied with a full range of engraving and sublimation products.
Depending on your needs, you have two offerings for sublimation training at each Branch Training Event. These are as follows:
Day 1
Instructor-Led Workshop - Exploring a Sublimation Business
Thursday (9 AM to 4 PM) Registration Required — For those just starting or for customers in need of a more complete breakdown of running a sublimation business, consider registering for the Instructor-Led Workshop. Designed to provide a comprehensive overview of running a sublimation business, these hands-on, educational workshops, titled Exploring a Sublimation Business, cover topics ranging from currently available printers and equipment to sublimation graphic specs, steps for printing dye sub images, heat press transfer techniques and sublimation marketing primers. In addition to the assigned topics, there is plenty of time devoted to answering individual questions. Perfect for the customer with "too many sublimation questions to name." Because of the limitations of certain individual branch common areas, we may reserve a meeting space at a nearby hotel for the Instructor-Led Training. Regardless of the venue, there is limited seating at each of these instructor-led events.
Full Details
Designed to provide a comprehensive overview of running a sublimation business, these hands-on, educational workshops, titled Exploring a Sublimation Business, cover topics ranging from currently available printers and equipment to sublimation graphic specs, steps for printing dye sub images, heat press transfer techniques and sublimation marketing primers. Here are the day's topics and start times:
• The Wide World of Products 9:30am – Let's face it, when we're talking about sublimation's features and benefits, the first though goes to the vibrant, high quality end products you can make. With blank products for practically every market – Apparel, Awards, Photo Gifts, Home Décor, Identity, Promotional, Signs and more – sublimation allows you to expand on your current product offerings or establish a completely new embellishment and personalization business. We’ll take a look at all of the most popular product types and groups while offering purchasing advice on individual items.
• A Complete Dye Sub System 10:30am – For those kicking sublimation's tires or looking to upgrade systems, we’ll review a few different printer and heat press options available in both the desktop and industrial worlds so you can make an informed decision about which system is best for your product needs. We'll also discuss important preventative maintenance techniques for keeping your system in working order and saving you time, frustration and money.
• How to Sublimate Products 11:00am – We’ll begin with the fundamentals of sublimation including the individual steps necessary for creating dye sub products, techniques to use when creating various product groups from apparel to ceramic mugs as well as troubleshooting techniques.
• Lunch/Hands-on Sublimating 12:00pm– A chance to sublimate products that we provide in our student package.
• All About Graphics 2:00pm – It can be difficult to get the right graphics from customers (an understatement for any already running an embellishment businesses), but we’ll provide some industry-wide graphic recommendations as well as some tried-and-true techniques for dealing with problem artwork. We'll also provide you with a sample Artwork Specifications Guide for customers which you can edit for your own needs.
• Sublimation Marketing Strategies 3:00pm – At the same time we discussed many of the products you can make with sublimation, we covered many of the target markets for these products. We’ll provide some effective ways to introduce sublimation products (either to current customers or to new markets), how to create the best sublimation samples and how to present sublimation against other personalization technologies.
• Conclusion with Q&A 3:45pm – A chance to ask any questions you may have about any of the topics discussed.
• Sublimation Resource Library – Bring a flash drive with you to take home a digital copy of the ultimate sublimation file library (we will also provide a time-sensitive download link on the spot). With items like a Sublimation Pricing Calculator, The Sublimation Color Management Guide, practically every single product template available, ready-to-print RGB color palettes, tile mural instructions, a work flow diagram, artwork specs, business ideas and much, much more, receiving a current copy of Johnson Plastics' Sublimation Resource Library is more than enough reason to sign up for the class! [If you can't make either training day but are interested in receiving a copy, please e-mail training@johnsonplastics.com]
Day 2
Open Topic Training - Drop-In Education
Friday (9 AM to 4 PM) — Whether you drop in for a few minutes or commit to a couple hours with us during the Open Topic Training day, feel free to ask our experts any sublimation related questions you'd like. New to the sublimation technology or trying to decide whether or not to purchase a system? Come in to learn hands-on techniques for sublimating one or two products on your own (supplied from host branch inventory) or feel free to just talk shop and network with other embellishment business owners while enjoying a cookie and a Coke. While we'll have some stock graphics on hand and a complete sublimation system available, Drop-In Education allows you to present any specific sublimation questions or issues directly to an expert. Stump the expert on Open Topic Training Day, and win a free t-shirt!
Schedule
April 2012
Bloomington, MN - April 5-6
Winston-Salem, NC - April 19-20
May 2012
Columbus, OH - May 31-June 1 (Instructor-Led Workshop held offsite)--(New Starting Time of 9am)
July
Chicago, IL - July 12-13 (Instructor-Led Workshop held offsite)
September 2012
Concord, CA - Septemeber 13-14
October
Atlanta, GA - October 4-5
Dallas, TX - October 25-26 (Instructor-Led Workshop held offsite)
November
Phoenix, AZ - November 8-9
Register
Click on a link below to register for a hands on Blue Chip Training event
Columbus, OH Registration (Day 1 is Offsite, Day 2 at OH Branch)
Chicago, IL Registration (Day 1 is Offsite, Day 2 at IL Branch)
