ch 1 planning
what’s your purpose & who is your audience?
planning using the print production checklist and/or job ticket (see blog post)
costs
copyright
work for hire
ch 2 type & graphics
fonts - what is a font?
postscript, TrueType, type one
is it Helvetica or is it “Hell”vetica? (fonts may have the same name but they are not the same)
point, picas & inches
readability
lpi, dpi, spi, ppi
screen ruling - coarse, fine, superfine
line copy
reverse
continuous tone or CT
halftone - conversion for printing
color separations
duotones
transparencies vs. prints
Screenless printing_printing photographs with stochastic dots is sometimes referred to as screenless printing because there is no halftone grid and the dots are scattered randomly.
ch 3 prepress
software - page layout, vector based, image editing (raster based)
scanning - spi = 2 x % enlargement or reduction x lpi
bleed & bleed size
preflight
imposition
trapping
dot gain
ch 4 outputting - film & flats
film
CTP
proofs - film, digital, press, blueline, overlay, laminate or integral, Cromalin, color key,
flat
ch 5 color
additive colors
subtractive colors
RGB
CMYK
color temperature - kelvin
gamut
hue, saturation, value
PMS
color management
calibration
cool & warm colors
hue
process color
spot color
value
ch 6 paper & ink
a reference for paper grades
bond, uncoated book (offset), text, coated book, cover
ganging
basis weight
grain direction
up
out
parent sheet
opacity
ch 7 offset printing
offset printing
lithography
web press
sheet fed press
gripper
blanket cylinder
impression cylinder
perfecting press
substrate
quality problems
ch 8 other printing methods
on demand printing
large format printing - often ink jet
banners, displays
flexography
relief printing
letterpress
gravure
engraving
thermography
doctor blade
squeegee
ch 9 finishing & binding
die cutting
kiss die cutting
embossing & debossing
foil stamping, trim size
bleed
drilling & punching
scoring & perforating
folding
adhesive bindings-tipping, perfect binding
signatures & creep
stitching - saddle, side, smythe
comb & wire binding
case binding
ch 10 working with printers
the right printer for the right job
pricing practices
trade customs - quotes, ownership, overruns
plus......
Types of printing processes and characteristics
Types of presses and characteristics
Uses, characteristics and functions of different software applications in the printing process_word processing, page layout, digital imaging, etc.
Continuous-tone art vs. line art
Raster vs.vector
Halftone resolution and its relation to paper and printing processes
The differences between PostScript and True Type fonts
Transparency vs. continuous tone photo
Dot size and dot area
Dynamic range
Preflight and its purpose
Collating
Nesting
Trapping
Proofs
CTP
Color_vocab and study questions
Spot color vs. 4C process
Registration
Size of a bleed
Binding and finishing
Printing cost factors
Paper_Vocab and Study Questions
Copyright, intellectual property, ownership, etc.
