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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Printing Industry | |
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| Printing Technology | |
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| Size and Scope of the Printing Industry | |
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| Organization of Printing Services | |
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| Preparing for a Career in Printing | |
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| The Tradition of Foundry Type | |
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| Foundry Type Composition | |
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| Machine Composition of Hot Type | |
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| Basic Design and Traditional Preparation | |
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| Design Considerations | |
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| Alphabet Design | |
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| Type Copy | |
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| Traditional Art Copy | |
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| Design Steps | |
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| Traditional Layout and Pasteup | |
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| Surfaces, Materials, and Tools for Traditional Layout and Pasteup | |
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| Types of Art | |
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| Working with Photographs | |
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| Working from the Rough Layout | |
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| Single-Color and Multicolor Pasteup | |
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| Traditional Line and Halftone Photography | |
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| Line Photography | |
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| The Nature of Light | |
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| Camera Fundamentals | |
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| Film Processing | |
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| Halftone Photography | |
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| Density, Tone, and Contrast | |
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| Densitometry | |
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| Traditional Halftone Screens | |
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| Areas of a Continuous-Tone Print | |
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| Understanding Halftone Dots | |
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| Color | |
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| Basic Color Theory | |
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| Halftone Dots and Color | |
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| Color Masking | |
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| UCR and GCR | |
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| Traditional Image Assembly and Platemaking | |
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| Traditional Image Assembly | |
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| Stripping Transparent Materials | |
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| Imposition | |
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| Elementary Stripping Techniques | |
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| Multiflat Registration | |
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| Proofing Transparent Materials | |
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| Offset Platemaking | |
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| Equipment for Proofing and Plating | |
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| Lithographic Printing Plates | |
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| Surface Plates | |
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| Working with Digital Data | |
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| The Concept of Digital Information | |
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| Computer Basics | |
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| Moving and Storing Data | |
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| Digital Workflow | |
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| Digital Prepress: Creation and Input | |
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| Digital Image Types | |
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| File Formats | |
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| Digital Image Input | |
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| Digital Photography | |
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| Digital Prepress: Assembly | |
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| Page Layout | |
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| Illustration and Image-Editing Software | |
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| Fonts | |
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| Preflight | |
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| Digital Halftones | |
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| Color | |
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| Color Management | |
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| Digital Prepress: Output | |
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| PostScript | |
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| Portable Document Format | |
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| Imposition and Trapping | |
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| Output to Film | |
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| Digital Proofing | |
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| Computer to Plate | |
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| Output to the Internet | |
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| Databasing and Archiving | |
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| Printing Presses: An Overview | |
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| Press Development | |
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| Understanding Offset Press Operation | |
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| The Systems Approach to Learning about Presses | |
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| Multicolor Sheet-Fed Presses | |
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| Web Offset Presses | |
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| Toward Total Automation | |
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| Offset Press | |
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| Offset Press Operation | |
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| Printing Process Color on Sheet-Fed Offset Presses | |
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| Quality Control Devices | |
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| Roller and Blanket Problems and Adjustments | |
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| Common Press Concerns | |
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| A Troubleshooting Checklist | |
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| Press Maintenance | |
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| Screen Printing | |
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| Basic Concept and Classification of Stencils | |
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| Fabric and Frame Preparation | |
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| Photographic Stencil Methods | |
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| Masking the Stencil | |
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| Squeegee and Ink Considerations | |
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| Basic Screen Printing Process | |
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| Halftone Reproduction in Screen Printing | |
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| High-Speed Production Presses | |
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| Special Machine Configurations | |
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| Gravure Printing | |
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| The Gravure Industry | |
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| Basic Gravure Concepts | |
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| Cylinder Construction and Preparation | |
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| Gravure Presswork | |
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| Trends in Gravure | |
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| Flexographic, Ink-Jet, and Digital Presses | |
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| Flexographic Printing | |
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| Ink-Jet Printing | |
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| Digital Printing | |
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| Paper and Ink | |
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| Paper | |
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| Introduction to Paper | |
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| Recycled Paper | |
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| Classifying Paper | |
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| Determining Paper Needs | |
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| Sample Paper Estimating Problem | |
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| Determining the Price of Paper | |
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| Ink | |
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| Properties of Ink | |
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| Ingredients in Ink | |
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| Calculating Ink Usage | |
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| Ink Specifications and Standards | |
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| Lithographic Inks | |
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| Screen Printing Inks | |
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| Letterpress Inks | |
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| Flexographic Inks | |
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| Gravure Inks | |
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| Ultraviolet-Curing Inks | |
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| Finishing Operations | |
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| Cutting | |
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| Folding | |
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| Special Letterpress Applications | |
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| Assembling | |
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| Binding | |
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| In-Line Finishing | |
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| Demographic Binding | |
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| Packaging and Shipping | |
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| The Business of Printing | |
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| Determining Real Printing Costs | |
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| Job Estimating | |
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| Production Planning | |
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| Computer-Based Management Tools | |
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| E-Management | |
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| Customer-Defined Quality Management | |
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| Defining Quality | |
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| Motivation for a Customer-Defined Quality Orientation | |
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| The Principles of Customer-Defined Quality Management | |
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| The Typical TQM Process | |
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| Statistical Process Control | |
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| The Problem-Solving Process | |
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| Group Processes | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Color Temperature | |
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| Finding Information Resources in the Graphic Arts | |
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| Health and Safety Issues | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |