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Basics of Print Production (2nd Edition)
Author: Mary Hardesty
Basics of Print Production provides an overview of the steps required to make a creative concept into a printed piece. Being aware of the basics of a process helps everyone who is involved recognize the time and cost factors as well as the influence of each decision or step on the overall process.
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Best Practices for Print Automation
Author: James E. Harvey
At ASN meetings, members tell their stories and talk about what they've done, why they did it, and what they got out of it; but they also talk about common problems, issues, and solutions. In short, Best Practices for Print Automation is a collection of that valuable advice.
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Color Essentials, Volume 2
Author: Gary G. Field
Color Essentials, Volume 2 continues the series designed to help develop one’s color quality judgment and analysis skills through another set of 14 essays on color principles as they relate to everyday graphic arts color reproduction issues.
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Customer-Centered Production
Author: Gregory S. D'Amico
Become an industry leader by focusing on not just meeting, but anticipating and exceeding customer requirements. With Customer-Centered Production, transform your business into a company that always provides solutions to customers' problems.
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Designer's Guide to Prepress
Author: Erika Kendra
With Designer's Guide to Prepress you'll learn how to produce designs that are compelling, printable, and profitable. This affordable book is an essential resource for every graphic designer whose work appears on the printed page.
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Ink & Color: A Practical Guide for Printers
Author: Heidi Tolliver-Nigro
Understand how the interaction of inks with different substrates, presses, chemistry and environment factors can affect the color that customers are asking for. Whether used as an introduction for new press employees, a refresher for current press operators, or an overall shop reference tool, Ink & Color is the ideal resource for the printer who wants to better understand the process of reproducing perfect color on press.
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JDF Workflow: A Guide to Automation in the Graphic Communications Industry
Authors: Thomas Hoffman-Walbeck & Sebastian Riegel
Job Definition Format (JDF) and Job Messaging Format (JMF), based on the XML standard, provide one of the most important recent innovations for the automation of print production. JDF Workflow: A Guide to Automation in the Graphic Communications Industry, demonstrates that it is more than just a data format by providing a comprehensive examination of the format as well as the workflow that can be built with the help of JDF.
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PDF Print Production Guide
Authors: Joseph Marin & Julie Shaffer
Need a crash course on PDF for print production? Your #1 resource for working with PDF files for print production has just gotten bigger and better with its third edition. The PDF Print Production Guide is back with its easy-to-follow, how-to format that takes the mystery out of creating print-perfect PDF files.
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Principles of Color Reproduction
Author: John A.C. Yule
Although major advances have occurred with prepress and press technologies in recent years, the underlying principles of successful color reproduction remain fundamentally the same. With this in mind, PIA/GATFPress reprints Principles of Color Reproduction, the classic text on the topic.
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Print Production Scheduling Primer
Author: Don Merit
Print Production Scheduling Primer provides proven scheduling procedures that lead to loyal customers, faster turnaround, more accurate forecasting, improved personnel usage and workflow, and the prevention of costly downtime.
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Process Controls Primer
Author: Joseph Marin
Printers have always had to deal with issues such as “Why is the color so inconsistent on these printed sheets?” and, “The color on the press sheet doesn’t match the proof.” However, the only way to reproduce color more accurately and consistently is by applying process controls. The chapters in this Process Controls Primer break down the various production steps so you may analyze your production workflow and identify problem areas and their causes.
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Total Production Maintenance
Author: Kenneth Rizzo
To stay competitive, printers must maximize all the components of the graphic arts processes, from prepress to shipping. The TPM system is designed to optimize and maintain a graphic arts technical system, as well as accelerate plant production throughput. Total Production Maintenance is a guide to helping printers develop and implement a formal program for achieving optimum equipment effectiveness.
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