Digital Prepress Primer

Author: Joseph Marin

Prepress has undergone many changes over the last twenty years. 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 Digital Prepress Primer is designed to give the reader a straightforward reference to the new technologies used in prepress. It provides a short, illustrated, non-technical orientation to digital prepress along with a glossary of basic terms.

The primer is divided into the following four main sections:
• Job creation (design, typography, color specification, DTP software)
• Digital image capture and reproduction (color theory and reproduction, image files, color management)
• Job engineering (workflow, image file formats, preflighting)
• Digital output (PostScript, trapping, imposition, quality control)

About the Author: Joseph Marin, the author of several books published by PIA/GATFPress, is the senior prepress technologist/instructor for the Center for Digital Excellence, an electronic prepress training and production facility at PIA/GATF.

Table of Contents: Foreword • Introduction • Section 1—Job Creation (Document Design and Typography, Color Specification, Desktop Publishing Software) • Section 2—Digital Image Capture and Reproduction (Color Theory, Color Reproduction, Digital Image Files, Color Management) • Section 3—Job Engineering (Graphic Arts Workflow, Common Imaging File Formats. Preflighting) • Section 4—Digital Output (PostScript and RIPs, Digital Trapping, Digital Imposition, Quality Control) • Glossary • Common Extensions • Index • About the Author • About PIA/GATF • PIA/GATFPress: Selected Titles • Colophon

13-digit ISBN: 978-0-88362-563-7