Designing & Prepress
Prepress is the terminology used to define processes that happens before printing and finishing. Since several publications nowadays are published both in print and electronic media, many shared processes are referred to as premedia services instead.
The prepress processes
The prepress processes which are mentioned below may take place at single location, like large publishing or Printing house, or at different places. Generally, few tasks happen at a publisher end while few take place at a Dedicated prepress company (which are also known as service bureaus or trade shops).
Artwork
Check
Computer to Plate
Setup Job
Colour Seperation
Colour Seperation
4 + Pantone Colour Plates
Design
Since the advent of desktop publishing, several people in the printing industry don’t take design to Be a prepress task. the design process includes following things
- Preparation of data, which comprises of copyediting and product photography, for example for a mail Order catalogue.
- Making the layout is done by using one of the principal computer design application such as adobe Indesign or quarkxpress. Sometimes people take usage of tools like microsoft office or publisher.
- There is also a extensive range of specialized applications are available for tasks like database publishing.
- The rectification sequence contains processes like proofreading and image retouching, for which adobe Photoshop is the best application available in the market.
- Preflighting: before finished pages go through the rest of the processes, a validation needs to be done to Check if all the data meet the critical production requirements.
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Proofing: during the design phase, page proofs were already being created. Proofs are also done by the
Company which is responsible for the printing. This is done for internal checks of the impositioning as well
As for the customers who need to sign off the proofs for approval. Hardcopy proofing is still very popular in
The case of adequate time for it and for color critical or expensive jobs. - Imposition: number of pages will be united into signatures as per the final output device.
- To output data, pages or complete flats have to be ripped or rendered. This process also includes:
- Transparency flattening: transparency effects like drop shadows behind text need to be fixed.
- Screening
- Trapping
- Managing colors
- Color partition