RIT School of Printing - 1977 Courses

[SteveSuffRIT]

In 1976, Steve Suffoletto (Buffalo, NY) became a freshman at Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T.) in the College of Graphic Arts & Photography (GAP), in the School of Printing. There were about 700 students. Classes were 10 week-long tri-semesters.
Below is a list for courses offered in 1977.

Management Courses:
Introduction to Technical Writing
Applications of Computers to the Graphic Arts
Personnel Relations 1,2
Estimating 1,2,3 (Bill Birkett)
Printing Production Management 1,2
Financial Controls 1,2
Statistics of Quality Control 1,2
Advertising Management
Business Law
Legal Problems of Publishing
Marketing in the Graphic Arts
Economics of Production Management
Labor Relations in Graphic Arts
Collective Bargaining in the Graphic Arts
Sales in the Graphic Arts
Newspaper Management

Technical Courses: (most with labs)
Introduction to Printing
Typography I,2,3
Calligraphic Form
Development of Printing Types
Composition Technology
Composition Systems
Copy Preparation
Layout and Printing Design 1,2
Stripping
Imposition and Finishing (Werner Rebsamen)
Relief Press 1,2 (Charles Weigand)
Gravure Printing 1,2
Relief and Gravure Plates
Reproduction Photography (Joe Noga)
Tone Reproduction Photography (Bob Chung)
Color Separation Photography (Miles Southworth)
Advanced Color Reproduction
Printing Plates
Lithographic Plates
Lithographic Press (Tony Sears, Cliff Fraser)
Lithographic Press Problems
Screen Printing 1,2
Flexography
Ink and Color (Julius Silver)
Production for Book Publishing
Newspaper Design
Newspaper Production
Web Offset
Applications of Electronics to Graphic Arts (Frank Cost)
Introduction to Paper (Joe Brown)

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2002 Heidelberg donates Sunday 2000 heatset web printing press to Printing Applications Laboratory (PAL)
2001, 2001, 2003
2012 press is sold
2012 School of Print Media changed to Media Sciences
2020 School moved to College of Engineering Technology (CET)
2025 Department of Print and Graphic Media Technology deactivated
2025 Department of Packaging still offers printing classes
2025 Dept of Packaging combines print & packaging programs.
1992-1997 Steve provided independent contract training and consulting services for RIT's industry outreach dept.
1997-2010 Steve was an employee of RIT's Technical & Education (T&E) and then Print Applications Laboratory (PAL) departments.

 

[SteveSuffRIT]

See my post from Feb 11, 2023 when Erie Community College (ECC) in Buffalo, NY deactivated it's printing program. I taught lectures and labs there for 15 years. Being so close to Rochester (60 miles, 1hr), several students transferred to R.I.T. to continue their higher education.

 

[MailGuru]

I remember when Xerox first introduced the iGen, you had to send one of your people up to RIT to learn how to run it.

 

[SteveSuffRIT]

In 1997 RIT had a Kodak Nexpress, Indigio, Xeikon and Heidelberg QuickMaster DI in their Printing Industry Center (PIC) lab.