The south London-based college is conducting the research project after it received around £45,000 of help from Hewlett-Packard as part of the supplier’s ‘Digital Publishing for Teaching and Learning’ project.

As well as £37,500 of kit, HP gave a £7,500 grant to help with the project.

Students on LCC’s MA in Publishing are looking at colour management and a host of other areas in digital print and linking it to an interest with large-format printers.

School of Print and Publish­ing associate dean Les Claridge said: “We wanted to do colour management studies with HP. We are looking at digital systems comparisons, so we are evaluating colour systems within a digital environment.”

LCC’s School of Printing and Publishing dean Sue Pandit said: “It enables us to become a leading print communications provider as HP researchers.”

Separately, LCC has also appointed its first UK students to its MA in Print Media Management.

Course leader Tony Ban­ham said next year’s part-time version of the course had attracted UK students. The full-time version, launched last year, had failed to attract any students from UK printers despite several print firms supporting its launch.