Graphic Arts Workflow Consultant

Job Description

Canon is the market-leading supplier of production inkjet and graphic arts print solutions in the UK. Our Commercial Print Professional Services team works with some of the country's most advanced and innovative print businesses, helping them maximise the value of their investment through workflow consultancy, production optimisation, colour management and technical expertise. This is a senior customer-facing consultancy role for an experienced print professional with expertise in production workflows, colour-managed print environments, and commercial print applications.

Working closely with customers, sales teams and industry specialists, you will play a key role in helping customers improve efficiency, optimise production, and realise the full value of Canon's market-leading production print technologies. This role is UK-based and national in scope, combining workflow consultancy, production expertise and customer engagement — as much about commercial influence and customer success as it is about technical depth — making it ideal for an individual who enjoys solving complex challenges from pre-sales through to live production.

Occasional European travel is required

Canon is the market-leading supplier of production inkjet and graphic arts print solutions in the UK. Our Commercial Print Professional Services team works with some of the country's most advanced and innovative print businesses, helping them maximise the value of their investment through workflow consultancy, production optimisation, colour management and technical expertise. This is a senior customer-facing consultancy role for an experienced print professional with expertise in production workflows, colour-managed print environments, and commercial print applications.

Working closely with customers, sales teams and industry specialists, you will play a key role in helping customers improve efficiency, optimise production, and realise the full value of Canon's market-leading production print technologies. This role is UK-based and national in scope, combining workflow consultancy, production expertise and customer engagement — as much about commercial influence and customer success as it is about technical depth — making it ideal for an individual who enjoys solving complex challenges from pre-sales through to live production.

Occasional European travel is required

As our Graphic Arts Workflow Consultant your key responsibilities will be:

• Designing, optimising and troubleshooting production workflows across graphic arts and production inkjet environments.
• Supporting customers with PDF-based production workflows, including imposition, preflight, output processing and workflow automation, helping them improve efficiency, consistency, and production performance.
• Advising on workflow efficiency, RIP integration, process optimisation and production improvements across both digital and physical production environments.
• Helping customers bridge the gap between workflow design and physical production constraints, ensuring solutions perform effectively in live production.

• Owning colour-managed production environments end-to-end, including ICC profile creation and validation, device characterisation, colour consistency and print quality optimisation.
• Diagnosing and resolving complex colour and print quality challenges in demanding, high-volume production environments, using spectrophotometric measurement and industry-standard colour tools.
• Advising customers on colour reproduction, proofing, process control and conformance to recognised production standards (e.g. ISO 12647-2, G7, Fogra/GRACoL) across a range of substrates and applications.
• Providing expert guidance on achieving consistent, repeatable output across multiple devices, workflows, media, and production conditions — acting as the escalation point when other technical resources can't resolve a colour issue.

• Acting as a trusted technical authority alongside Canon sales teams during high-value customer engagements.
• Authoring…