january 24

Attendance

Pass out and get surveys, with email addresses.
Write if it's not OK to put your email on an all email list.

How do we want to email one another? I prefer stephen.campbell@nscc.edu

Look at NSCC Information link

Discuss hard copy handouts

Go through course outline (in syllabus handout) and discuss dates.

Discuss important dates, holidays, dates of quizzes, etc.

Discuss next week's assignment.

Go over supplies. Do you use Dropbox.com?

Discuss study questions & directed reading. Take these as quizzes, at home and during the first 30 minutes of class. 4 attempts.

Quizzes
Will be taken in class and will be timed. 1 attempt. Last part of class period.

Projects & Grades
One of your grades will be an ongoing project_a book/journal about the history of printing.
Use handouts & what we cover in class. Can be anything from altered books to a slick spiral bound book. I will grade this throughout the semester.

On computers_Look at assignments & grades in Course shell

On line activity:
Send me your email address. Be sure to include your name.

Show & discuss my blog
gpnscc.blogspot.com/

Server access
viscom
Fall08

Discuss Email NSCC live

Go to NSCC on-line class page
and look at:

Welcome
Syllabus
List of needed supplies
Faculty info
Week One -
You are responsible for printing out after this week

Intros

My philosophy

Video_Milton Glaser (I would like to do something like this during every class)

Discuss printing today and its future
Magazines and newspapers are going away
What is printed today?
List 20 things that are printed today
Predict - what is the future of printing?

Hands on relief printing setup

Group activity - history of printing
For the History of Printing assignment, include.......

Woodblock
Gutenberg
Intaglio
Lithography
Rotary Press
Offset
Flexography
Screen Printing
Digital Printing

Group activity - Lonnie

Video: Story of a Page

inclement weather

Nashville State Community College

Inclement Weather Procedures for Faculty

Beginning in January, 2011, NSCC will go into “home school” mode when inclement weather forces a cancellation of on-campus classes. When NSCC cancels classes due to inclement weather, all faculty members who have an on-ground class scheduled during that period of time are responsible for posting an assignment in the course D2L shell that students can access and complete at home. Instructions for posting an assignment are given below.

These assignments constitute a “make-up” class. For this reason, the assignment must:

• Be substantive and pertinent to the class

• Require some type of accountability for the student. For example, the student may be required submit the assignment, receive points toward the course grade for the work, etc.

If students do not have access to a computer from home, there must be a provision that allows them to complete the work – e.g., within two days after classes resume. “Home school” mode will not work for all classes. Students in clinicals will, for example, be expected to show up at the site. Lab instructors may need to reschedule labs. In these cases, a faculty member should consult with the Dean or Director about an appropriate option.

Faculty need to instruct students in advance about finding the assignment information when classes are cancelled. The instructor must give specific direction about finding the course assignment and make it clear that the student is responsible for accessing the assignment. If NSCC cancels classes, notice will be posted at www.nscc.edu and will be on local TV and radio stations.

Even when classes are cancelled, the campus remains open. Students who are planning to come to the main campus to complete their assignments in the Learning Center (353-3551), Library (353-3555), or Open Lab (353-3678) should call first to make sure that staff members have been able to make it to campus.

“Home school” mode applies only to situations when the administration cancels classes. An instructor can post an online assignment in lieu of meeting with a class at any other time only with the advance approval of the faculty member’s Dean or Director.

This procedure impacts faculty and students only. Even when classes are cancelled, the college remains open and staff must either report to work or take annual leave.

computer help desk information

Important Tips for Faculty and Student Classroom Use
Computer Services Help Desk
Sent:	Wednesday, January 12, 2011 1:26 PM
To:	Faculty and Staff; Adjunct Faculty
Attachments:

Computer Services Help Desk

IMPORTANT TIPS FOR FACULTY AND STUDENT CLASSROOM USE

All classroom and lab computers have been updated to the Windows 7 operating systems and Microsoft Office 2010.

1.0 When an instructor logs into a Classroom Instructor Computer, use the form below:
Example: Instructor Jane Doe will type “administration\doe_j” in the Username field.
Your password is unchanged.
No pull-down domain field will be visible as was the case in Windows XP logon.

2.0 Students will login with the A-number as noted below. The default logon should work normally in the classroom.

3.0 If the student attempts to logon, and gets a message “X“– The username or password is incorrect”, please ask the student to use the “instruction\A12345678” format for username as noted below.

A quick overview of navigating Windows 7 will help in the XP to Windows 7 transition. When you have a moment, please review the video in this link to see Windows 7 desktop information and tips… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl4xuxMaSyE

Transitioning to Office 2010 should not be difficult; while the look is a bit different, it is very similar to Office 2007. If you want a preview of Office 2010 Word, click this link…Office 2010 Information

STUDENTS:

YOU MAY USE YOUR NSCC STUDENT E MAIL ADDRESS AS YOUR USERNAME/ ID LOGON INTO WINDOWS 7.
You may use your NSCC Student email address as your User Name when logging on to campus computers.

If you use wish to use your “A” number when logging on to campus computers, prefix it with “instruction\” and your “A” number. Please Note: (backslash is “\”, do not use a forward slash” /”)

Examples: “instruction\A12345678”, OR “jsmith1@my.nscc.edu” format for username.

Passwords

NSCC logons still have two passwords. Just remember this …

Your myNSCC web password is only for the myNSCC web portal, everything else that requires a logon uses your six digit PIN.

Please feel free to contact the Help Desk if you have any questions.

Computer Services Help Desk
Computer Services Division
C219A Ext 3678

written exam review

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.

december 1

quiz dates

Quiz over Ch. 1_tonight

final exam_December 15

the journal_due tonight

no makeups after December 8

tonight

quiz retakes & makeup work

6:00 - 6:40

your grades

remaining course schedule

discuss chapter 1 and 10

the printing process_start to finish

http://gpnscc.blogspot.com/2010/09/printing-process.html

chapter 1 quiz

lonnie

sketchup practice and setup for final project

Study Sheet for Ch 1 Quiz

Study your HW questions for this chapter

Vocabulary

Broker

Buyout

Copyright vs. Work for hire

Intellectual property, page 20

Copywriter

Dummy

Production

Know the characteristics of Basic, Good, Premium, Showcase and Do-It-Yourself printing.

Unit costs vs. variable costs

Study the time saving strategies in Graphic 1-3, on page 14. Understand how these strategies could affect design options.

Study Post Office Problems in Graphic 1-2 on page 12.

Be familiar with the Basic Planning Process. Graphic 1-1 is an overview. What should you start with to be sure that you keep your jobs on schedule?

Publications must include a specific percentage of space devoted to advertising in order to qualify for periodical rates.

In general, you’ll want to be conservative when estimating quantities of printing because content can become dated quickly.

The function of a mailing service.

Study the workflow graphic on page 16 and be familiar with the distribution of responsibilities.

lonnie

You have an exciting new client, Lonnie Lipchitz. OK, that’s not his real name. His real name is Lawrence Lipchitz, but his manager thought Lonnie had a little more “pizzaz.”

Lonnie is a retired cosmetic surgeon who made a small fortune as the first liposuction practitioner in Beverly Hills. He has decided he wants to be a successful recording artist and he wants your help.

For openers, Lonnie wants you to design and produce the artwork for his new CD, titled “Lonnie Lipchitz, Love Machine.” He’ll need three million CD inserts. Lonnie also needs posters for in-store promotions and give-aways. Plus, he wants postcards to send to his fans and promoters.

Your assignment, should you chose to accept it:

Fill out a job ticket for one printed piece — the CD inserts, posters and postcards.

But first, you probably want to ask some questions.

journal_elliott phelps