Joseph Marin

Keeping up with all of the changes in prepress is an ongoing battle for everyone involved in print production. This book is designed to give the reader a straightforward reference to the new technologies used in prepress. It provides a short, illustrated, non-technical orientation to digital prepress along with a glossary of basic terms.

The primer is divided into the following four main sections:
• Job creation (design, typography, color specification, DTP software)
• Digital image capture and reproduction (color theory and reproduction, image files, color management)
• Job engineering (workflow, image file formats, preflighting)
• Digital output (PostScript, trapping, imposition, quality control)

About the Author:
Joseph Marin, the author of several books published by PIA/GATFPress, is the senior prepress technologist/instructor for the Center for Digital Excellence, an electronic prepress training and production facility at PIA/GATF.