Professional Prepress, Printing, and Publishing

by Frank J. Romano

A reference for graphic arts professionals, explaining concepts and practical techniques and offering tips and tricks for print and electronic publishing. After a quick history of communication,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130997447
• ISBN13: 9780130997449
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.9" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

An excellent primer for the technology but occasional lapses

As a primer for pre-press imaging, and printing, this book is excellent. It is up to date and, in general, it is well written, and easy to read, sometimes with mild humor. However, that said, there are deviations from this standard. Thus there should also have been more explanatory diagrams, and some are illustrative rather than instructional. For example, the explanation of Under Color Removal would have beeen helped considerably by a good diagram. Unfortunately there are occasional more serious lapses from the generally high standard of writing. Thus, if this reviewer was not already familiar with the concept of unsharp masking, it is doubtful if the explanation on pages 335-336 would have helped! Similarly, in the discussion of Under Color Removal, the sentence "GCR is more powerful an effect than UCR since it affect the whole image, and often 100% is excessive" is distracting and requires thought to understand within the context. Then, the very next paragraph appears to be discussing a picture than does not exist in this book!If the reader is looking for an explanation of the background science then he/she should look elsewhere. But that does not appear to be the primary purpose of this book. Instead it is excellent primer and introduction to the technology. I am glad I bought it for that purpose.Elvin T.