Book Production for Editors
Editors need a firm grasp of the complexities of the print production process in order to make wise editorial and scheduling decisions. Equipped with this knowledge and understanding, costly mistakes and prolonged delays can be avoided, saving the company much time and effort.
This two-day course will:
- provide you with a thorough explanation of the entire production process, including digital print processes
- teach you how to control quality
- consolidate learning through a hands-on case study.
Programme
Day One
- Key stages of book production
- How books are produced and the role of the production department
- Schedules and budgets
- Book design
- Page layout
- Typefaces, type sizes and typesetting standards
- Calculating pagination
- Typesetting and DTP systems
- Graphics handling – monochrome and colour
- Image types
- File naming conventions
- Hard copy graphics
- Digital file types
- Digital photography: standards, checking and manipulation
- The proofing and correction cycle
- Proof types (galley, page, PDFs)
- Proofing methods
- The correction process
- Proofing systems
- Principles of colour
- Colour additive and subtractive
- Special colours
- Pantone
- Four colour process
- Measurement of colour
- Dealing with colour issues
- Introduction to case study
Day Two
- Digital illustrations and storage in book publishing
- File formats
- Archiving
- Data types and compression
- Re-use
- Updating
- Asset and content management systems
- Pre-press operations
- Case study preparation
- Conventional printing techniques and methods for books
- On demand and digital printing techniques
- short-run books, cost and quality comparisons
- Binding and finishing operations
- Processes for books
- Folding, gathering, limp binding, wirestitching, case binding
- Varnishing and laminating
- Materials for book production
- Paper for text and covers
- Characteristics and manufacturing
- Calculating paper sizes and weights
- Quality control – origination, printing and binding faults
- Case study presentations
- Likely technical developments in production technologies.
Who will benefit from this course?
This course is designed for editorial staff who have at least six months’ publishing experience. Other publishing staff, such as marketing, sales and customer services employees, may also benefit.
Note that most of our short courses can also be run as in-company events.
- Dates: 24 May 2012, 20 November 2012
- Duration: A two-day course
- Price: £755+VAT
- A number of discounts are available
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