Process control is controlling the variables through measurement and documentation to achieve consistency, repeatability, and the best possible product quality. This book provides an introduction to this topic as it applies throughout your production workflow.

Process Controls Primer

Science & Math

Joseph Marin

Technology

Graphic Arts Technical Fndtn

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)

Digital Prepress Primer

Arts & Photography

Printing Industries Press

Need a crash course on PDF for print production? The PDF Print Production Guide is back with its easy-to-follow, how-to format that takes the mystery out of creating print-perfect PDF files. The third edition explores the problems, solutions, tools, and techniques specific to using PDF in prepress with Acrobat 8 in eight thorough chapters covering: Basics of PDF, Creating Print-perfect PDFs, PDF and Operating Systems, PDF Production Tools, Automating PDF, PDF In the Trenches, PDF Forms, and References.

PDF Print Production Guide

Computers & Technology

Julie Shaffer

Web Development & Design

PIA/GATFPress

This Instructor's Manual is a part of the Prepress Skills Training Curriculum. The Printing Industries of America Prepress Skills Training Curriculum provides an in-depth exploration of six key areas of focus for today s prepress technician. The curriculum includes a DVD containing PowerPoint presentations for each lesson in addition to videos showing critical applications at work. Students and trainees will study:  * an orientation to graphic communications  * composition  * job engineering  * image capture  * production considerations  * digital output.  Trainers will receive their own manual with instructional aids and guidance to successfully convey essential concepts.

Prepress Skills Training Program Instructor's Manual (and DVD)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

This workbook is a part of the Prepress Skills Training Curriculum. The Printing Industries of America Prepress Skills Training Curriculum provides an in-depth exploration of six key areas of focus for today s prepress technician. The curriculum includes a DVD containing PowerPoint presentations for each lesson in addition to videos showing critical applications at work. Students and trainees will study: * an orientation to graphic communications * composition * job engineering * image capture * production considerations * digital output

Prepress Skills Training Program Trainee's Manual