Pocket Pal: A Graphic Arts Production Handbook

Pocket Pal: A Graphic Arts Production Handbook [Paperback]
Frank Romano (Foreword)


* Paperback: 254 pages
* Publisher: Graphic Arts Technical Fndtn; 20 edition (Nov 30 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0977271617
* ISBN-13: 9780977271610

This staple text offers a compact education on printing and the related processes by relaying valuable information on the history and conventional processes of the printing industry as well as the recent technological developments within the industry and the areas related to this transition.




This staple text has been valued by publishers, students, designers, print buyers, and many other graphic communications segments since its release in 1934. Comprehensive in scope, it offers a compact education on printing and the related processes. When the seventeenth edition was published in 1997, digital imaging and printing were still considered "parts" of printing. Now in the eighteenth edition, more than relaying its respected, valuable information on the history and conventional processes of the printing industry, this updated text recognizes the recent technological developments within the industry and describes and emphasizes the areas related to this transition: Typesetting and photography have been almost completely replaced by digital imaging; the use of films and their processing and image assembly are being replaced by computer-to-plate, computer-to-plate-on-press, and computer- to-press systems; new digital workflows are replacing conventional workflows; new processless plates and new UV and violet lasers that allow use of conventional plates; information on toners or digital inks for digital presses; and color management systems

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