The qualification provides its receivers with the competencies to meet the digital world's demand for reliable services and expert consultancy in standardised results and colour output.
Docrat, a production supervisor with five years' experience in desktop publishing, is also the first branch technician to qualify and says that studying towards the diploma has changed both his view of and experience of working with colour.
"I have gained much knowledge and expert skills during my time preparing for the diploma. The result is that customers will benefit from highly consistent print quality and clearly defined quality standards through sophisticated colour manipulation. In addition, issues that would ordinarily have taken me a few days to troubleshoot can now be resolved in just a few minutes, allowing customers' downtime to be at a minimum, thus not affecting their workload output," says Docrat.
"The qualification has already helped me through some tricky colour situations. I have also been able to transfer some of the knowledge gained to the customer by showing them the correct workflows within their environments thus achieving their correct outputs more quickly and efficiently."
More than 100 online exams have to be taken to reach certification level. Once these exams are completed, the candidate is invited to Japan for the practical three-day exam.
"We are proud of him and now, with four Diplomas on board, South Africa is taking the lead in the colour expert rankings in the Asia Pacific region. Our clients embracing digital colour printing can thus be confident that they are dealing with the leaders in colour technology," says Alan Griffith, Konica Minolta South Africa MD.
