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Production for Graphic Designers (5th edition)
Alan Pipes

Paperback
340 illustrations
272 pages
280 x 116mm
ISBN 978 1 85669 601 2
£22.50
Published February 2009

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Contents

1. Introduction
2. Text & Type
3. Illustration
4. Computers & their Peripherals
5. Prepress
6. On Press
7. Digital Design

 

 

Computer technology has completely revolutionized the work of graphic designers, printers, and print production professionals. To keep pace with these far-reaching changes Production for Graphic Designers is set firmly in the digital age. The book comprehensively explains the prepress and printing processes from traditional letterpress to the latest on-press CtP (computer-to-plate) digital offset and on-demand colour printing. It also covers design to production workflows.

 

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Alan Pipes is a freelance writer, illustrator, webmaster, and part-time publisher specializing in applications of computer technology in graphic design, fine art illustration and product design. He is the former editor of CadCam International and author of Drawing for 3-Dimensional Design and Foundations of Art + Design.

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