Digital Prepress Primer

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)