The Digital Printing Handbook

Book Design Made Simple gives DIY authors, small presses, and graphic designers--novices and experts alike--the power to design their own books. It's the first comprehensive book of its kind, explaining every step from installing Adobe(R) InDesign(R) right through to sending the files to press. For those who want to design their own books but have little idea how to proceed, Book Design Made Simple is a semester of book design instruction plus a publishing class rolled into one. Let two experts guide you through the process with easy step-by-step instructions, resulting in a professional-looking top-quality book

Combines long-established darkroom techniques with an in-depth look at print quality, a guide to digital printing includes instructions for setting up a workstation, testing different papers, and creatively interpreting photographs.

This handbook provides the reader with valuable information on digital and variable-data printing, including extensive discussions of software, workflow, digital presses, and digital print production. It also addresses VDP languages, data acquisition, personalized marketing, and the business of digital printing.

Describes the major digital printing processes used by photographers and artists over the past forty years, explaining and illustrating materials and their deterioration, methods of identification, and options for acquiring and preserving digital prints. --from publisher description.

This state-of-the-art guide offers the most complete and authoritative collection of information available on the rapidly emerging field of digital printing. The book provides detailed descriptions and evaluations of every aspect of digital and on-demand printing. 120 illus.

The best, full-service guide to the best full-service printer is now thoroughly updated, with the latest information on the new Epson printers, materials, software and other products. Epson is the company at the cutting edge of digital photo quality printing, and their superb equipment makes possible for everyone to print sparkling photographs at home. With the help of Rob Sheppard, editor of Outdoor Photographer and PCPhoto magazines, and this fully updated manual, amateurs can enter Epson's brave new world with all the latest information on printers and papers. Two-page spreads with write-ups and pictures from acclaimed photographers George Lepp, John Shaw, Greg Gorman, Jack Reznicki, Joyce Tenneson, and others explain how Epson printers and digital photography have enhanced their art and expanded their business. There's advice on choosing a printer, selecting standard and specialty papers, using image processing programs to refine photos, adding finishing touches that turn a good print into a great one, and much more.

Get it right, the first time. Hundreds of images clearly explain digital pre-press techniques for graphic designers.

This text covers all aspects of digital printing, from the basic concepts of digital data and binary data streams to the technicalities of fine art printing.