College Appoints Flexo Print Specialist

Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) in Charlotte, North Carolina has selected Stephen Gerhardt to the newly created position of Harper National Flexographic Centre coordinator.

Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) in Charlotte, North Carolina has selected Stephen Gerhardt to the newly created position of Harper National Flexographic Centre coordinator.

The flexographic centre is located on CPCC's Harper Campus.

In his new position, Gerhardt is responsible for establishing a series of continuing flexographic symposia for industry professionals, with the input of Alex James, eastern technical manager of Harper Graphicsolutions, the technical service division of Harper Corporation of America.

Tony Donato, systems, product and process development engineer at Harper Corporation, will also be involved.

A winner of the PICA (Printing Industry of the Carolinas) award seven times, Gerhardt began his career in graphics whilst managing two business service centres that offered design work and quick printing.

He later joined Postnet as a graphic specialist.

With his sights set on furthering his formal education in flexography, he enrolled in the graphic arts program at CPCC's Harper Campus.

Whilst attending CPCC, he was hired as a part time laboratory facilitator, giving press and plate-making demonstrations, teaching pre-press skills and helping students and teachers to trouble-shoot press operations.

Harper added that along the way, Gerhardt developed a love for teaching flexography and computer graphics.

He has taught Flexography I, Flexographic Applications, Image Manipulation I, Graphic Arts I, and Computer Graphics II, III and IV.

Gerhardt said: "I look forward to providing this great new development to our flexo education programme at CPCC`s Harper Campus.

Offering enriching and memorable seminars and industry training will further strengthen an already thriving flexographic industry.

I'm thrilled to be a part of it.".

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