#Digital Printing

2025-08-14

ColorJet unveils ColorJet Academy’ to empower technical talent in digital printing ecosystem

With the digital printing industry evolving at an unprecedented pace, ColorJet Academy is positioned as a hub for knowledge and expertise, empowering professionals, partners, and aspiring talent through structured and impactful learning opportunities.

The team celebrating the launch of the ColorJet Academy © 2025 ColorJet

Speaking at the launch, Mr. M.S. Dadu, Chairman, ColorJet Group, said, “ColorJet Academy is more than just a training initiative – it’s our commitment to empowering the entire digital printing ecosystem. We aim to develop skilled professionals, support our partners, and create future-ready leaders who can drive the industry forward. With the digital printing industry evolving at an unprecedented pace, ColorJet Academy is positioned as a hub for knowledge and expertise, empowering professionals, partners, and aspiring talent through structured and impactful learning opportunities. Speaking at the launch, Mr. M.S. Dadu, Chairman, ColorJet Group, said, “ColorJet Academy is more than just a training initiative – it’s our commitment to empowering the entire digital printing ecosystem. We aim to develop skilled professionals, support our partners, and create future-ready leaders who can drive the industry forward."

Mr. M.S. Dadu, Chairman, ColorJet Group © 2025 ColorJet

ColorJet Academy has been designed to cater to a wide spectrum of learners, including dealers and their sales and support teams, customer operators and technical staff, freshers aspiring to build a successful career in the digital printing industry, and ColorJet Group employees across sales, service, manufacturing, and support functions—both new and experienced professionals.

The Academy will focus on structured learning and development through process-oriented programs, nurturing technical knowledge, sharing wisdom, fostering meaningful relationships, skill building to prepare next leaders, and a strong pool of skilled human resources to meet the growing demands of the industry.

Through this initiative, ColorJet aims to establish itself as a learning-driven organization that contributes to the wider community, strengthens dealer, partner and customer’s networks with upskilled resources, and fosters a culture of continuous learning and innovation across the digital printing ecosystem beneficial for one and all. To ensure maximum accessibility and effectiveness, ColorJet Academy adopts a blended learning approach, combining classroom sessions, digital self-paced modules, live instructor-led training, and multi-location training programs.

With the launch of ColorJet Academy, the company seeks to transform the mechanism of digital printing industry as procedure oriented approaches in learning and development, fostering a skilled, future-ready workforce capable of driving growth and innovation in the sector.

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