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Printing Technology
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Author: J. Michael Adams, David D. Faux, Lloyd J. Rieber
Published: January 1996
Hard Cover; 646 pages

Provides a conceptual understanding of how all printing press functions are controlled giving users an invaluable introduction to the fundamentals.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. The Printing Industry
2. The Tradition of Foundry Type
3. Design Concerns for Printing
4. Traditional Cold Type Layout and Paste-Up
5. Digital Imaging for the Graphic Arts: Basic Understandings
6. Line Photography
7. Halftone Photography
8. Digital Imaging - Working with Data
9. Color Separation
10. Image Assembly: Mechanical Stripping and Proofing
11. Offset Platemaking
12. Printing Presses: An Overview
13. Offset Press
14. Screen Printing Stencils
15. Screen Printing
16. Gravure Printing
17. Flexographic, Ink-Jet, and Digital Presses
18. Paper and Ink
19. Finishing Operations
20. Estimating and Production Control
21. Customer-Defined Quality Management
22. Appendixes: Calibrating and Using Graphic Arts Tools
23. Appendix A: Determining Proper Film Exposure
24. Appendix B: Light Sources and Color Temperature
25. Appendix C: Finding Information Resources in the Graphic Arts

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