New Windsor, NY, August 20, 2001 – GretagMacbeth, the leading provider of color management solutions, has launched its Color and Appearance Seminar program, a science workshop series that will stop in 8 locations across North America. The Fall/Winter series of two-day workshops includes a “Fundamentals” and “Beyond the Basics” level courses that combine lectures, demonstrations and discussions to help attendees learn how to evaluate, measure, communicate and simulate color. The workshops are open to all interested professionals who value color quality and its effects on business. The Fundamentals session focuses on an introduction to color and appearance. Important principles that are explored during the workshop include visual color evaluation, quantifying color, color differences and an introduction to instrumentation. The Beyond the Basics session expands upon these concepts and includes color tolerances, measurement practices and color data communication critical to today’s color needs throughout the supply chain. The schedule of workshops includes the following dates and locations: · September 11-12, 2001, Schiller Park (Chicago), Illinois · September 18-19, 2001, Atlanta, Georgia · October 9-10, 2001, Minneapolis, Minnesota · October 16-17, 2001, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada · November 13-14, 2001, Cincinnati, Ohio · November 27-28, 2001, Southfield (Detroit), Michigan · December 4-5, 2001, Irvine, California · December 11-12, 2001, King of Prussia (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania “This workshop is geared toward professionals who are interested in learning the inner workings of color and appearance science in order to improve their business,” said Kevin Loughrey, Color Education Manager for GretagMacbeth, “Effective color management is a complicated process that requires an understanding of how color quality affects the entire supply chain. The Color and Appearance Seminar series covers important concepts for understanding how to improve your end product with a basic knowledge of color and provides the foundation to solve your most challenging color problems.” Registration for the GretagMacbeth Color and Appearance Seminars is $495 per person for the two day session. For more information on the Color and Appearance Seminar series, or to register for a particular session, call (800) 622-2384 ext. 573. In addition, GretagMacbeth continues to offer its on-site seminars for those companies that require an in-depth educational program for their specific needs. An on-site seminar incorporates many of the same elements as the Fundamentals and Beyond the Basics courses offer, however each customer can customize the seminar content to focus on specific technical and business issues.