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Working With Prepress and Printing Suppliers

This third volume in Agfa's Digital Color Prepress series addresses the relationships a designer or document creator has with his or her most important service providers--relationships that are changing rapidly as electronic methods take over more and more of the publishing process. Lines between the traditional, clearly defined crafts of design, typesetting, paste-up, color separation, stripping, and printing are melting away as designers take on more of the prepress process themselves.

Meanwhile, the color prepress industry has been changing to support the new requirements created by integration with desktop publishing systems. Traditional typesetting and color separation services have added facilities for high-resolution PostScript output and have developed ways to integrate high-quality color with electronically created pages. Output service bureaus, which supply high-resolution scanning and film output to do-it-yourself publishers, have sprung up, and more and more printers have added equipment for electronic prepress, providing one-stop shopping for prepress and printing.

These new relationships call for new expertise not only on the part of the prepress service bureaus, but on the part of designers who may be working directly with printers and prepress service bureaus for the first time--or who must rethink old ideas about who does what and when during prepress. This booklet provides a mixture of background information and practical advice designed to help you understand the prepress and printing process, choose the right vendors for the tasks you need done, and avoid costly mistakes during the course of work. You may purchase this and other publications using our convenient online order form.

Table of Contents

2. Vendors for Electronic Prepress
4. Prepress Hardware
6. Type
7. Specifying Color
8. Scanning
9. Trapping, Bleeds & Crossovers
10. Setting Up Files for Output
12. Getting Output
14. Proofing
16. Imposition
17. Presses
18. Paper, Dot Gain & Inks
20. Printing & the Press Check
22. Finishing
23. Glossary & Index



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