Printing Technology - 5th edition

Adams, J. Michael : Drexel University

J. Michael Adams is the Dean of the College of Design Arts at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dolin, Penny Ann : Arizona State University Main

Penny Ann Dolin has more than 20 years of experience in the graphic communications industry, particularly in commercial photography, digital imaging, and prepress technologies. Her accomplishments include the founding and successful operation of a full-service commercial photography studio and prepress industry experience within corporate American Color. Currently, Ms. Dolin is a member of the faculty at Arizona State University East, in the Department of Information and Management Technology within the College of Technology and Applied Science.

The Printing Industry.

1) Printing Technology.

Size and Scope of the Printing Industry.
Organization of Printing Services.
Preparing for a Career in Printing.
The Tradition of Foundry Type.

2) Foundry Type Composition.

Basic Design and Traditional Preparation.

3) Section 1. Design Considerations.

Alphabet Design. Type Copy.
Traditional Art Copy.
Design Steps.
Section 2. Surface and Materials for Traditional Layout and Paste-up.
Working with Photographs.
Working From the Rough Layout.
Single and Multi-color Paste-up.
Traditional Line and Halftone Photography.

4) Section 1. The Nature of Light.

Camera Fundamentals.
Film Processing.
Section 2. Density, Tone, and Contrast. Densitometry.
Traditional Halftone Screens.
Areas of a Continuous Tone Print.
Understanding Halftone Dots. Color

5) Basic Color Theory.

Halftone Dots and Color.
Color Masking. UCR & GCR.
Traditional Image and Assembly and Platemaking.

6) Section 1. Stripping Transparent Materials.

Imposition.
Elementary Stripping Techniques.
Multiflat Registration.
Proofing Transparent Materials.
Section 2. Equipment for Proofing and Plating.
Lithographic Printing Plates.
Surface Plates.
Working With Digital Data.

7) The Concept of Digital Information.

Computer Basics.
Moving and Storing Data.
Digital Workflow.
Digital Prepress: Creation and Input.

8) Digital Image Types.

File Formats.
Digital Image Input.
Digital Photography.
Digital Prepress: Assembly.

9) Page Layout.

Illustration and Image Editing Software.
Fonts.
Pre-Flight.
Digital Halftones.
Color.
Color Management.
Digital Prepress: Output.

10) PostScript.

Portable Document Format.
Imposition and Trapping.
Output to Film.
Digital Proofing.
Computer-to-Plate.
Output to the Internet.
Databasing and Archiving.
Printing Presses: An Overview.

11) Press Development.

Understanding Offset Press Operation.
The Systems Approach to Learning About Presses.
Multi-Color Sheet-fed Presses.
Web Offset Presses.
Towards Total Automation.
Offset Press.

12) Section 1. Offset Press Operation.

Printing Process Operation.
Printing Process Color on Sheetfed Offset Presses.
Quality Control Devices.
Section 2. Roller and Blanket Problems and Adjustments.
Common Press Concerns.
A Troubleshooting Check List.
Press Maintenance.
Screen-Printing.

13) Section 1. Basic Concepts and Classification of Stencils.

Fabric and Frame Preparation. Photographic Stencil Methods.
Masking the Stencil. Section 2. Squeegee and Ink Considerations.
The Basic Screen-Printing Process.
Halftone Reproduction in Screen-Printing.
High Speed Production Presses.
Special Machine Configurations.
Gravure Printing.

14) The Gravure Industry.

Basic Gravure Concepts.
Cylinder Construction and Preparation.
Gravure Press Work.
Trends in Gravure.
Flexographic, Ink-jet, and Digital Printing.

15) Flexographic Printing.

Ink-jet Printing.
Digital Printing.
Paper and Ink.

16) Section 1. Introduction to Paper.

Recycled Paper.
Classifying Paper.
Determining Paper Needs.
Sample Estimating Problem.
Determining the Price of Paper.
Section 2. Properties of Ink.
Ingredients in Ink.
Calculating Ink Usage.
Ink Specifications and Standards.
Lithographic Inks.
Screen Printing Inks.
Letterpress Inks.
Flexographic Inks.
Gravure Inks.
Ultraviolet Curing Inks.
Finishing Operations.

17) Cutting.

Folding.
Assembling.
Special Letterpress Applications.
Binding.
In-line Finishing.
Demographic Binding.
Packages and Shipping.
The Business Printing.

18) Determining Real Printing Costs.

Job Estimating.
Production Planning.
Computer Based Management Tools.
E-Management.
Customer-Defined Quality Management.

19) Defining Quality.

Motivation for a Customer-Defined Quality Orientation.
The Principles of Customer-Defined Quality Management.
The Typical TQM Process.
Statistical Process Control.
The Problem-Solving Process.
Group Processes.

Appendixes.
Appendix A. Color Temperature.
Appendix B. Finding Information Resources in the Graphic Arts.
Appendix C. Health and Safety Issues.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.