GCM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Prepress, Hard Copy, Halftone

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Graphic Communications
• Course: GCM 110
• Professor: Diana Brown

Document Summary

Gcm 110 - week 4: september 29th - october 5th. Much of the print you see today involves capturing images. The process of including photos in a printed piece was not always easy. We accomplish getting beautiful photos into magazines, on billboards, packages, etc. through pre-media activities. Pre-media refers to all the upstream processes which occur before a job is sent to final output. This is important because in today"s graphic communications field, output could be any of the following: digital files of varying formats, film to final plate output, printing plates, websites/html, cds and multimedia. In the pre-media department, there are three core functions: preparing customer files for output, receiving files, preflighting files (checking for errors) - fixing customer files c. Mistake costs money; the further down the line you make (or catch) a mistake, the higher the cost of the mistake: fonts, missing fonts are a common problem when clients send files b.