Baltimore - Greater InDesign User Group

6:00 p.m. Registration, Raffle Sales, Networking, and Refreshments sponsored by MacMedics
6:30 p.m. Welcome, Group Business, and Adobe News
7:00 p.m. Featured Presentation I: Pre-Press Tips by Martin Nibali
7:30 p.m. Break (and final raffle sales)
7:40 p.m. Featured Presentation II: Increase Productivity with INSITE Creative Workflow by Jim Hogan and Joe Wagner
8:10 p.m. Questions & Answers
8:25 p.m. Selecting Raffle Winners
8:30 p.m. Adjourn

Our first presenter is Martin Nibali from KM Printing (http://www.millersmmp.com/), which started out as a single Minuteman Press franchise and has grown to become "not your typical quick printer." KM Printing is a full-service communications company offering marketing consulting, graphic design, print production, promotional products, and direct mail. Martin will give us many useful pre-press tips, including how to create InDesign preflight profiles to preflight your document as you design and advice for choosing the correct PDF profiles, just to name a few.

Our second two presenters, Jim Hogan and Joe Wagner, are from The Whitmore Group (http://www.whitmore.com/), a commercial printing and communications company serving the mid-Atlantic region. The Whitmore Group provides innovative pre-press, manufacturing, and print management solutions that maximize technology and talent. Jim and Joe will demonstrate the INSITE Creative Workflow, a web-based system that enables teamwork and improves efficiency of creative development. This process allows for proof and approval of files over the Internet, tracks project status, and supports creative professionals while tracking costs and time.

Our Sponsors:
A special thanks for the generosity of our sponsors:

• To MacMedics (http://www.macmedics.com/) for sponsoring our meeting by providing our refreshments and an iPod for our raffle
  
• To PremierMac Technologies (http://www.premiermac.com/) for their continued support
  
• And to KM Printing and The Whitmore Group for providing us with these knowledgeable speakers and for making our October meeting possible

About Our Presenters:
Martin Nibali is Director of Pre-press and Graphics for KM Printing and a graduate of Manhattan College in New York City. He has a background in studio art and communications. Martin has been working on the production side of print for more than 10 years.

Jim Hogan is Sr. Vice President of Operations for The Whitmore Group and a graduate of RIT. Jim is a well-respected and a sought-after speaker on print-related topics in the design community.

Joe Wagner has been with The Whitmore Group for 12 years and serves in a sales/marketing capacity. He is a graduate of UMD. Joe previously served for 5 years as President of the AIGA Baltimore and AIGA Central PA chapters.

More Reasons to Attend:
In addition to our scheduled presentations, you will have the opportunity to win InDesign CS5, an iPod, color proofing RIP software, third-party plug-ins, books, subscriptions, and more when you purchase raffle tickets to support our IDUG Chapter. These valuable raffle prizes are made possible through the generosity of the following co-sponsors:

• Adobe
  
• onOne Software
  
• GridIron
  
• ColorBurst
  
• MacMedics
  
• Markzware
  
• Stocklayouts
  
• O’Reilly Media
  
• PeachPit Press
  
• InDesign Magazine
  

You must be present to win!

In addition, we would like to thank Kelby Media for providing us with Layers magazine and Shutterstock for supplying the wonderful giveaways.

See you all there!