Dates:
30-31 October 2008 (a two-day course)
Price:
£689+VAT (a number of discounts are available)
Venue:
The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)
Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability
"Insight into the more technical details to be considered throughout the publishing process. It also strengthened my knowledge of file types and different proofing methods. I enjoyed the course very much and feel that I have gained considerable knowledge."
HarperCollins delegate
Editors need to be clear about the production process to understand the implications of their decisions. With this knowledge and understanding, costly mistakes and prolonged schedules can be avoided, saving the company much time and effort.
This two-day course will provide a big injection of confidence for all editors.
Please note that you should have at least six months’ experience before attending this course.
Programme
Day one
- Key stages of book production
- How books are produced; 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 files 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 – for low run books, cost and quality comparisons
- Binding and finishing operations
- Processes for books
- Folding, gathering, limp binding, wirestitching, case binding
- Varnishing, 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
Your tutor
Jeremy Mills is Head of Business Development at Catalysts Limited, an electronic publishing and communications company which has worked for some of Europe's largest publishers and specialist legal and accountancy companies. Until 2001 he was Sales and Marketing Director of the Charlesworth Group, one of Europe's leading journal printers, and was responsible for the development of Charlesworth Electronic Publishing Services (CElect), providing electronic solutions via CD-ROM and the Internet. Prior to joining Charlesworth in 1990, Jeremy completed an MBA at Durham University. In recent years Jeremy has given a number of talks and written articles regarding design and production of journals.
Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in company events.
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Dates: 30-31 October 2008
Price: £689+VAT (a number of discounts are available).
Venue: The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels).
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