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.
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