The steps required to turn a design into final form, ready for final printing on a printing press. May include preflight, color correction, color trapping, imposition, color separation, proofing, and imagesetting.
The steps between final design and printing/reproduction. These include creating and reviewing color proofs for color accuracy, setting up files to print more economically (i.e., 8 business cards per page), the printing of negative film, and review of a proof from the printer, called a "blueline."
All aspects of printing prior to the printing press
The book designer's or printer's preparation of the manuscript for production.
Camera work, stripping, plate burning performed by a printshop (digitally or manually) to prepare a project for press.
All manufacturing operations prior to press; also called Prep. to top
The act of preparing the overall layout of a work before it is printed. Includes proofing document for content, photo resolution, trapping, color separation, etc.
The processes performed on a job before it goes to the press to be printed. Examples are typesetting, layout, platemaking etc.
The operations which are performed before printing including: preflight, intervention, proofreading, color correction, imposition, and imaging of film or plates.
The procedures that a manuscript goes through prior to printing.
Refers to the production stage before ink is laid on the paper. This includes electronic creation or preparation of film to produce and create the reprint.
The various steps necessary to prepare a book to be sent to a printer. May include scanning of images, creation of proofs, conforming color specifications to the printer's requirements, and many other activities.
1. Generic term used to describe any process which is carried out on a product prior to it going onto press (litho or digital). 2. Generic term used to describe the origination department based around the Miles typesetting system.
Prepress is the process of preparing artwork, film and screens for conventional printing methods.
The processes performed on a printing order prior to its going to the press to be printed. Examples are typesetting, layout, scanning, etc.
Camera work, color separations, stripping, platemaking and other prepress functions performed by the printer, separator, or a service bureau prior to printing. Most prepress work these days is digital, right down to plate making.
Final preparation of material to be printed to the highest standards, probably by an external, professional printer. This includes the specification of all the fonts and graphics used in a document.
Tasks usually handled by a printer prior to printing such as color separation, stripping, and platemaking. Technically, almost anything that happens to a job prior to being printed. Also, the name of the department that does those tasks.
Those steps needed to transform the finished original copy into the printing plates or other forms needed for reproduction.
The process of preparing output for printing, such as creating film, checking color, creating proofs etc.
The work done to a digital job before printing, laying out the text, graphics and sizing.
The various printing related services, performed before ink is actually put on the printing press. (i.e. stripping, scanning, color separating, etc. . .)
refers to the variety of procedures through which text and graphics must pass between being generated and being ready for duplication via a printing press.
Alternate term for preparation.
Camera work, color separations, stripping, platemaking and other prepress functions performed by the printer, separator or a service bureau prior to printing. Also referred to as preparation.
camera work, stripping, platemaking, and other activities performed by a printer before press work begins.
Camera work, color separating, stripping, platemaking and other functions performed by the printer, separator or service bureau prior to the actual printing. The prepress work is some of what goes into the makeready work of the printer.
The process of getting an image ready to go on press. Digital prepress denotes the entire preparation of a digital file for printing in either a digital or conventional system.
The preparation work required to turn "camera-ready" artwork into the printing plates needed for mass production, i.e., making negatives, "stripping" or placing the negatives in place, and etching the plates.
Prepress is the term used in the printing and publishing industries for the processes and procedures that occur between the procurement of a written manuscript and original artwork, and the manufacture of a printing plate, image carrier, or (traditionally) forme, ready for mounting on a printing press.