september 29

quiz 3 retake

review printed schedule

review online course content

presentation updates

have we discussed your ideas?

ch 5 study questions

Mounting activity

4-Color Separations activity (see on line Assignments folder)

https://elearn.nscc.edu/d2l/orgTools/ouHome/ouHome.asp?ou=1827058

We will do this together, during class

Edit Colors

Edit>Colors>New>Model: CMYK

Mix using percentages on the 4-Color_percentages.pdf

Type in New Color name>OK

Print dialog boxes

File>Page Setup or File>Print

At Layout, check Separations. Registration: Centered

Setup>Page Positioning: Center

At Create a Report, use the "create report and collect layout, screen fonts, printer fonts" option. Sometimes, you may need to check Report only for just the report.

Color management

We need to understand color, what happens to it when it is used with other devices, printed, etc.

We need to be sure that we get the color we want at the end, whether it is printed, projected, a website, etc.

This might be a decent analogy. If I went to a restaurant in France, I would want the food I order to be exactly what I expect when it is served.

I might want it prepared a certain way. I would need someone to translate this into French for me, to be sure that what I want is what I get.

overview of color management

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/color-management1.htm

stevie's color management PDF

go through Color Management Tutorial, Color Models, filling in answers sheets sheets using question and answer sheet for color management

http://www.booksmartstudio.com/color_tutorial/introcolor.html

ch 4 quiz review

ch 4 quiz

Ch 4 Quiz study sheet

Proofs - know this thoroughly

Types & characteristics: Composite, Desktop, Laser, Blueline, Overlay, Cromalin, Matchprint, Rainbow, Press, Loose, Scatter, Random

What they are used for

Advantages & disadvantages

What should you write on a proof?

Film & platemaking - advantages and disadvantages.

Why & why not use film for platemaking?

How long does a printer usually keep a flat? What does a printer keep or store?

Flat

Plate

Burning a plate

Spread

Trap

Crossover

Backup - printing on one side of a page that must line up correctly with printing on the other side.

Trim

CtP

Image area

Stripping

The 5-50-500 rule

Printing errors & their significance

Types of plates and their functionality. For example, quick print plates would not be recommended for long runs and fine detail

presentations

Research project approval due 9_29

3 presenters for October 6
Mallory_Edible Ink
Lindsay_Seventeen Magazine
Elliot

3 presenters for October 13
Heather
Gino
Michael

3 presenters for October 20
Pam
Allen

Sheron

3 presenters for October 27

Dominick

Tamara

september 22

quiz 2 retake 6:00 pm - 6:20 pm

review & discuss schedule

read all of chapter 5, from p.68-89

research assignment_typographers paul rand and david carson, designer milton glaser

Research project approval due 9_29

3 presenters for October 6
Mallory
Lindsay
Elliot

3 presenters for October 13
Heather
Gino
Michael

3 presenters for October 20
Pam
Allen

3 presenters for October 27

the journal

link to journal contents on blog

study questions and discussion of text

do we want to do this another way?

do you want to do a review of the quiz right before the quiz?

I will always have your study questions for you after you take the quiz

nscc online content

print out the color vocabulary handout

print out ch 5 HW

In Week 4, look at:

The Iteractive RGB Color Wheel

Mac OS X Color Picker

Additive Color

Subtractive Color

We will work on the 4-Color Separations assignment in Week 5

Typography video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT5MqHWlSMU&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_fresh+div-1r-15-HM

Commercial printing video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUlBueqStg4

review the printing process workflow

discuss ch 4

measuring activity

mounting activity

review for quiz 3

quiz

journal contents

history of printing

Woodblock

Gutenberg

Intaglio (Engraving)

Lithography

Offset

Flexography

Screen Printing

Digital Printing

line art vs. continuous tone art

spi, dpi, ppi, lpi

halftones and separations

CMYK

four color process printing

imposition

inches, points and picas

prepress to press workflow

type and fonts_issues connected to printing

raster and vector

scanning formula

trapping

film

proofs

plates

color

RGB vs CMYK

additive vs subtracttive

purpose of color models and color management

important color models

spot vs process colors

pantone colors

crop marks & trim marks

paper

coated vs uncoated

effect on the printed piece

printing processes

offset

inkjet

flexography

letterpress

screen

digital

engraving

gravure

finishing

emboss

foli stamp

binding

a printing job ticket (or checklist)

final exam

Due to the impending weather issues, you will be able to take your final exam from any computer, including your home computer. You do not have to come to the NSCC campus to take the final exam. The date and time will remain the same - December 15, from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. You will have 45 minutes to complete the exam.

I do not plan to be on campus on December 15 unless driving conditions are non-hazardous. Currently, snow and ice are still predicted.

You may contact me through email or by phone. Tomorrow, I may be at Hillwood. The number there is 615-353-2025, extension 807109. My home phone is 615-385-1438. Call me today before 6:00 pm if you have questions. If I am not at Hillwood tomorrow (December 15), I will probably be at home. If you need to call me at home tomorrow during the exam time, I will try to be available from 5:00 - 7:00 pm. You could also try earlier in the day.

If you do not get the exam taken, it will be recorded as a zero, so be sure you inform me of any problems with this on-line process.

Thank you for sending me your emergency phone numbers. I would still like to have those if you have not sent them.

I know several of you maintain contact with one another through Facebook. I would appreciate it if you would pass this information along, since Facebook is sometimes more efficient than email, just to be sure everyone gets the message.

When you finish the exam, email me regarding any questions you feel were auto-graded in error. I will check each exam as well.

Stay in touch,

Steve

september 15

Burn your History of Printing presentations onto a DVD

I have the DVD's

Review schedule: today & next week

Week 5 reading is Chapter 5, pages 68-88

I have not been told we need colored pencils

Online course content

Look at Week 4

Review Week 4, color materials for the study of color, beginning week 5

You should print out color vocab, plus study questions for ch 5

Discuss research project

Look at Week 2 Online

Discuss gp journal_the book project _what to do

Discuss altered books

My textbooks for ideas

Print out in class for use in journal

Review using the printing process flow diagram on the blog

Discuss halftones

Ch 3 study questions & quiz review

Imposition activity_fold piece of 8.5 x 11 paper

Trapping using blog

Measuring activity

gp mounting

Turn in Ch 2 study questions

Quiz

the printing process_from prepress to press

halftone & stochastic screen

imposition, plates, register

trapping

trapping_choke and spread

chapter 3 quiz review

What type of font is it legal to share? What are the guidelines for sharing fonts with a printer?

PostScript: the page description language used by laser printers and imagesetters

Functions of database applications.

The design process & preflighting. The people responsible for determining if files are correct and will print correctly. Understand the purpose of preflighting.

Overprint-printing directly on top of another color or tint area

Knockout-cutting out or "knocking out" a hole or in the color or tint area the same shape as the object that will be printed over the color or tint area.

Trapping-adjusting areas to be printed or overprinted so that the adjacent color areas press misregistration won't cause white spaces

Choke-the knockout is shrunk

Spread-the object is enlarged

Clipping path

Imposition

Dot gain

What should you send to the service provider when your job is ready to be printed?

Names of image editing, page layout, drawing or vector, and word processing applications. Have an understanding of their functions. Case must be correct - uppercase & lowercase.

Scanning resolution formula: spi=lpi x 1.5 x % enlargement or reduction

Raster Image Processor (RIP) converts files to bitmaps for imagesetter output.

The three main classifications of digital type are bitmapped, TrueType and Post Script (Type One) fonts.

How should digital images be rotated?

Standard bleed size

http://www.printernational.org/what-is-bleed.php

Correct way to stylize (italicize, bold, etc.) type.

vocabulary

Ghosting is certainly the most irritating of known technical problems in heatset web offset printing. Depending on the angle of the blanket cylinder, the printed image on one side of a page will appear on the other side as a printing error – a ghost image in effect. The name ghosting is very appropriate, not just because of the ghost-like reduction in tonal values, but also because of the apparently random ghostly occurrence of this effect.

Ghosting can occur due to an accumulation of ink or a reduction in the amount of ink. Properly cleaned and maintained presses and the use of high quality ink can help prevent ghosting. Adjusting the layout itself can also help in the prevention of ghosting. If you have a layout that incorporates both areas of heavy ink coverage such as large, bold headlines or reverses and areas of lighter coverage there is potential for ghosting.

screen tints

ch 2 quiz review

LPI, DPI, PPI, SPI

Line Art aka Line Copy

Rule

Hairline

Continuous Tone

Transparency vs. Print for reproduction

Font

Type One

Truetype

Helvetica

Dot Area

Imagesetter

Duotones

Highlight or dropout halftone

Halftones

Separations

Points

There are twelve points in one pica

There are approximately six picas in one inch

Screen ruling_coarse to fine

Screen ruling and paper coating or absorbency

Readability guidelines

Ideal line length for readability

Process printing_number of plates, colors. Why is black used?

Screen tint handout

Reverse

september 1_the history of printing

Be sure you include:

Woodblock

Gutenberg

Intaglio

Lithography

Rotary Press

Offset

Flexography

Screen Printing

Digital Printing

Note:

Try to mention how and why printing changed. For example, there is a reason why Gutenberg developed and refined movable type, but this did not occur in China, where movable type also existed.