Digital Prepress Primer, by Joseph Marin, has been published by PIA/GATFPress. Designed to offer a broad overview of the digital prepress industry for newcomers as well as experts, the book follows a user-friendly format and can be read straight through as an introduction to the industry or can be kept close by as a reference tool, the publisher reports.
'Prepress has undergone many changes over the last 20 years,' says Marin, senior prepress technologist/instructor for the Center for Digital Printing Excellence, the prepress training and production facility located at PIA/GATF headquarters in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. 'We have moved from a hands-on, craft-oriented method of producing work to an all-digital hardware and software-based workflow. Keeping up with all of the changes in prepress is an ongoing battle for everyone involved in print production.'
The book covers topics including:
— Document design and typography;
— Color specification;
— Desktop publishing software;
— Color theory, reproduction, and management;
— Digital image files;
— Graphic-arts workflow;
— Common imaging file formats;
— Preflighting;
— PostScript and RIPs;
— Digital trapping and imposition; and
— Quality control.
Price of Digital Prepress Primer: $30.
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