MASTER CLASSES 2025


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Colour Management


Friesens Corporation’s PrePress and Colour Expert, Brad Schmidt, walks you through colour management and how to prepare your files for print on either a digital or offset press.


Author

Paul Cibulka

Paul Cibulka has been in the printing industry for over 35 years. He joined Friesens in 2010 as the Great Lakes Region Account Manager serving clients in IL, IN, MI, OH, VA, WV and Washington DC). His clients include self-publishers, indie presses, small businesses, major publishers, and large corporations. They publish books in several categories: Religious, Art & Entertainment, Educational, Children’s, Biography & Memoir, Cookbooks, Classics, University, Museums and Graphic Novels. Paul’s depth and breadth of experience helps him serve clients by developing a printing solution(s) to help them meet their business and publishing needs. As an employee-owner, Paul is committed to the Friesens vision, “We help others share their best story with the world!”.

Author

Brandie Herrell

Brandie Herrell is the Southeast US Sales Executive for Friesens Corporation. Brandie manages publishing accounts throughout AR, KY, TN, GA, SC, and NC. She is a proud single mother of 4 children and lives on the coast of Georgia. Brandie is very involved in her faith and her community, both personally and professionally. She serves on the planning committee and hosts an annual workshop for the Protestant Christian Publishing Association. At home, she is a member of Community Church and serves as a board member at a Christian, re-entry program, Newpoint Partnership, in Brunswick, GA. Brandie brings books to life for ECPA publishers, such as: Harper Collins Christian, Lifeway Christian Resources and Hachette. At Friesens, she has spearheaded our application into and sponsorship of ECPA, because our involvement was very important to her. Brandie feels certain her role in printing Christian titles is her calling and she looks forward to meeting you all at PubU!

Author

Brad Schmidt

Brad Schmidt started working at Friesens Corporation in 1994. He started as a camera operator and has experienced the many changes in Prepress equipment and technology over the last 30 years. His experience and innate ability to connect with customers lead to Brad becoming Friesens Tech Support person in April of 2000. Since then, Brad has fielded thousands of calls and emails from customers on a wide variety of prepress related questions. Since colour management and system calibration have become a critical part of file creation the focus of the tech support calls has shifted somewhat since he started in 2000. Brad has presented at many seminars hosted by Friesens in various regions and is a key presenter at the Book Manufacturing Seminar that Friesens hosts twice annually.

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