Graphic Arts Monthly back issues from April 1996:
Prepress for printers.(digital prepress, Scitex)(Prepress for Printers)
Apr 01, 1996; ... A major vendor explains its vision of digital prepress in the printer's world, both today and tomorrow.Over the past few years, printers have increasingly adopted digital prepress and brought it in house. Along the way they have adapted it to the realities of their own environment; ...
Color scanning for printers.(CCD scanning devices)(Prepress for Printers)
Apr 01, 1996; ... Improvements in CCD devices make in-house color scanning a viable-and smart-option for a wide range of users.Overshadowed for nearly a decade by PMT drum scanners, flatbed CCD scanning devices are now stealing the spotlight. While earlier versions of CCD scanners could not match ...
What is a contract proof?(digital proofing in printing industry)(Prepress for Printers)
Apr 01, 1996; ... Improvements in digital proofing devices are changing the rules for this key stage in the process.What constitutes a color contract proof? It depends on who you ask. Until recently, analog proofs created from final job films dominated contract proofing. Since the contract proof is ...
Printers turn to imagesetting.(in-house imagesetting)(Prepress for Printers)
Apr 01, 1996; ... Even smaller firms are finding it advantageous to be able to generate their own film.Small and medium-sized printers, to survive in an increasingly contentious print market, are abandoning the standard practice of using outside sources for electronic prepress and adopting ...
Digital presses shake paradigms.(printing industry)(Prepress for Printers)
Apr 01, 1996; ... A new output alternative may substantially expand the possibilities of the on-demand color market.The digital revolution that is recasting all aspects of the prepress arena is also upsetting the traditional four-color printing model-pushing down run lengths, making print ...
The quest to manage information.(Editorial)
Apr 01, 1996; ... It is a subtle but serious shift in the industry, largely imperceptible except in the scale of the projects, the descriptive terminology, and the possible ramifications on the scope of printers' services.Up to now, printers, especially large ones with multiple sites, offered to ...
Printer-friendly workflow foundation.(printing industry, Scitex)(Prepress for Printers)
Apr 01, 1996; ... A new approach to electronic prepress mirrors the realities of a printer's production cycle.While it offers many advantages, the movement to an open pre-press environment has also created a number of inefficiencies in the production process. As a result, many in the industry are ...
Are you being served?(printing industry)(Prepress for Printers)
Apr 01, 1996; ... Advanced file servers are making life a lot easier-and faster-for today's printers.As the industry advances to all-digital processes such as computer-to-plate and digital printing, tools that manage the movement of digital data have become critical to improving the efficiency and ...
The key to CTP.(computer-to-plate printing processes)(Prepress for Printers)
Apr 01, 1996; ... Successful computer-to-plate production hinges on the presence of a complete, robust digital workflow.After nearly 20 years of gradual development as a "maybe someday' future technology, computer-to-plate (CTP) has emerged in the last year or so as a full-blown production reality. ...
Digital presses eye the market of one.(includes related article on Adobe Systems' Supra architecture)
Apr 01, 1996; ... It's a powerful concept-personalizing print for a single individual-and there are opportunities and obstacles to spare.When digital presses debuted several years ago, they promised to answer every marketer's dream by offering the ability to produce highly personalized documents ...
Digital imaging for short runs.
Apr 01, 1996; ... At the Drupa '95 exposition, as everyone knows, Heidelberg demonstrated its vision of what a "digital press" should be; the unit, described as a direct imaging system fed directly from digital data, caught immediate attention worldwide--and purchase orders from more than 500 printers to ...
Copier/duplicators meet the press.
Apr 01, 1996; ... These easy-to-operate units, which incorporate finishing steps, serve a key supporting role at the short-run end of the imaging spectrum.High-speed copiers have probably been chosen over many a single-color offset duplicator. There are 85,000 of them operating in the U.S., 45% of ...
Campus bindery gives a lesson.(University of California at Berkeley)
Apr 01, 1996 ... In-plant printing operation improves overall performance by upgrading its folders.Picture this: you're the in-plant printer for the University of California-Berkeley, serving the graphic arts needs of nine campuses, countless academic and service departments, and more than 125,000 ...
Full-speed changes transform the bindery.(includes related article on product trends)
Apr 01, 1996; ... Faster presses, shorter runs, and more demanding customers prompt a new look in a long-overlooked department.Computerization and automation are moving full-speed into the bindery, transforming the lackluster stepchildren of the printing industry into sleek, robotic work-horses ....
Cutters mend a vital link: equipping guillotine cutters with upgrades and new features ensures their pivotal role in the bindery.(includes related article on the Scientific Games)
Apr 01, 1996; ... Equipping guillotine cutters with upgrades and new features ensures their pivotal role in the bindery.Guillotine paper cutters are a lot like that ubiquitous pink bunny on television: they keep cutting and cutting and cutting. While dependability and durability are noteworthy ...
High-performance bindery systems.(new technologies revolutionize bindery machines)(includes related articles on thread sealers, production enhancements and digital finishing)
Apr 01, 1996; ... New generation breaks the production bottleneck-and delivers unique product enhancements to clients.In just a few years, high technology has been applied to bindery machines, with astonishing results. New materials handling solutions, digital operating controls, ergonomic ...
Stuck on hot metals.(Lincoln and Allen Bindery of Portland, Oregon, uses polyurethane-reactive adhesives)
Apr 01, 1996 ... A leading trade bindery on the West Coast applies hot melts to a layflat process.Two years ago, Iincoln & Allen Bindery, Portland, Ore., installed a Kolbus 18-pocket adhesive binding line so it could offer the Otabind layflat bookbinding process. It operated the equipment using ...
Telecommunications: the client connection.(printing industry's use of digital telecommunications)
Apr 01, 1996; ... ISDN, SMDS, Internet, T1-it's the new alphabet for transmitting digital data files, and strengthening customer bonds.Pushed by customer demands for faster, more flexible production cycles, printers and prepress shops are rapidly investigating telecommunications technologies to ...
New methods define biz talk.(innovations in electronic transfer of advertising from retailers to newspapers)
Apr 01, 1996; ... Present-day business-to-business communications in the graphic arts industry can be reviewed by examining the efforts of organizations and telephony advancements in transmission systems such as SMDS, ISDN, ATM, Frame Relay, and T1.For the past several years work has been done in ...
Digital delivery speeds the pace.(electronic file transmission options)
Apr 01, 1996 ... Overnight just isn't quick enough. That's the conclusion one had to draw based on developments at the recent Seybold Seminars event in Boston, where connectivity was in the spotlight. More than two dozen connectivity solutions that supported large, digital file transmission were ...
The last hurrah for Seybold Boston. (popular graphic arts industry gathering Seybold Seminars)
Apr 01, 1996 ... On March 1, the curtain I came down on the last Seybold Seminars event to be held in Boston. In 1997, the annual conference and exhibit will move to New York City, to take place there April 23-25.The Boston venue was not abandoned without a lot of conversation, resistance by some ...
Swatch books and the computer age.
Apr 01, 1996 ... Many believe print is most cost effective, and that consumers don't have the technology to access electronic swatch books.In last year's review of swatch books, the trends included style and ease of use; spiral binding and over-sized formats were popular. Some experimented with ...
Special effects should help, not hinder.(computer graphics in print media advertising)(Selling Yourself)(Column)
Apr 01, 1996; ... This column always is concerned with any odd phenomenon that interferes with advertising efficiency. In many cases, computerized special graphic effects inhibit an ad message's ability to travel uncorrupted to the prospect's brain.This can be no small problem. With very few ...
You can't undo that first contract. (account development in printing industry)(Marketing)
Apr 01, 1996; ... New account development these days is increasingly arduous and time consuming. That first order from a high-potential new account may require a year of work. This scenario is likely to become even more arduous in the coming months and years, as buying organizations establish "joined at the ...
CTP: poised on the brink of success.(computer-to-plate printing processes)(includes related articles on vendor and user reactions to CTP plates and technological influences on CTP)(Brink of Success)
Apr 01, 1996; ... As digital imaging becomes the norm, computer-to-plate will become a routine part of printing production.Printing is changing-but printing is here to stay. According to industry growth projection figures from DuPont Printing & Publishing, total industry page production over a ...
Computing ROI of C-T-P.(computer-to-plate)(includes related article on CTP evalutions)(Brink of Success)
Apr 01, 1996 ... Workable financial projection models for computer-to-plate are beginning to emerge.The industry has been talking nonstop about computer-to-plate for a year now, and outside of the technology itself, the issue raised most frequently is probably return on investment. Boiled down to ...