GCM 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Laserwriter, Laser Printing, Prepress

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Graphic Communications
• Course: GCM 111
• Professor: Jason Lisi

Document Summary

Premedia refers to all the upstream processes which occur before a job is sent to final output. Upstream is referring to everything that happens before the print gets to the client. The steps and procedures completed at the premedia stage of the workflow ensure the job will output correctly, and will ensure that clients expectations are met on press/output. The term premedia" has evolved from the term prepress". Prepress: processes and procedures that occured from the time original artwork was delivered, to the production of a final set of film used to create a printing plate. Prepress was drastically altered by the advent of desktop publishing (dtp), so we can divide premedia"s history into pre-dtp, and post-dtp. Separate companies worked together to achieve the end product for a client. In the mid 1980"s, three separate technologies converged, and changed prepress forever : apple macintosh computer, the first computer that shows you what you will get b)