GRA 323 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Human Eye, Pixilation, Dot Gain
5 May 2013
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It refers to all the upstream processes which occur before a job is sent to final output: All processed/procedures that occurred from the original artwork was delivered to the production on a final set of film used to create printing plate. Typesetting, mechanical prep, copy editing, proof reading, markup (page layout) Today design studio/client design studio/client service provider printer service provider printer printer. Full service printers compete w/ tradeshops for premedia. Digital hard/soft proofing systems certified for colour. Makes files ready for print device: prepare customer files for output, fix customer files, create ways to automate jobs above (jdf/jmf) special languages telling machines what to do. Resolution of the final printed pattern, measured in lpi. 3lpi (3 rows of dots in 1 inch) The more dots per ince, finer the line ruling. Better presses/stock use higher ruling than low quality ones. Line work line copy that are digital (line work items)
