Mark Andy continues to extend its support to school and university students by organising open houses, workshops, and competitions as well as internal traineeships with the company’s Polish division.
This year, the company supported Julia Wojciechowska in the tests relating to her engineering qualification. The project helped Wojciechowska compare flexo and digital printing technology using Mark Andy presses.
Lena Chmielewska-Bontron, european marketing manager at Mark Andy said, “We were delighted to help Julia with the preparation of her engineering thesis. The tests were conducted in cooperation with our partners: DuPont, Flexmar prepress studio, and Albi 2002, which uses Mark Andy presses”.
Julia Wojciechowska explained that it is not easy for a student to find support of this kind as it involves time and financial commitment.
“We know that students are always looking for this type of opportunity, and as a manufacturer and vendor of printing equipment, we are always open for such initiatives. We were also pleased to involve our partners,” added Bontron.
Bontron concluded, “It was a new and interesting experience as well. We have been involved for many years in initiatives devoted to school and university students, so we were very keen to help Julia with her thesis. We will also use the results of her project in our daily work. I whould also like to thank our partners for their support with this project.”
Tomasz Nojszewski, sales manager NCE DuPont Image Solutions said, “DuPont has supported numerous initiatives among school and university students. We do it either on a global and local level. So, when we heard about a common project with Mark Andy, it was quite natural to take part in it. We supplied Cyrel Easy Esx flexo plates as our material support. This was a good opportunity for us to present the newest trends on flexo plate market. Backed by 50 years of experience in flexo plate development, DuPont is very keen to share its knowledge, both with our customers and with students. Supporting Julia’s project was one of the best examples of our approach.”
Marek Biedrzycki, owner of Flexmar prepress studio said, “We support many different education-oriented actions, and were pleased to prepare and deliver photopolymers for the project. We have organised practice sessions for students in our prepress studio. When Mark Andy approached us, we agreed immediately. We checked the jobs Wojciechowska prepared and made the photopolymers to print them. It was similar to our daily work where we support customers at every step of prepress process, prior to printing on a flexo press.”
The need to compare toner-based digital and flexo technology meant that the jobs had to be printed in two places. The digital work was carried out in the Warsaw-based Mark Andy demo room, equipped with a Digital Pro3 toner-based press. The flexo part was printed by Albi 2002 – the Warsaw label printer and user of two Mark Andy Performance Series P5 flexo presses, one of which was used for the test.
Robert Cabaj, owner of Albi 2002 said, “Our long-term experience, modern technology and our highly equipped machine park enables us to print the highest quality. We were very pleased to take part in this project and support Julia in her engineering thesis and are always very open for this kind of education-oriented initiative, both now and in the future.”