December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
10h 52m
English
Much has changed in the realm of printing since the original edition of this book. Film has been almost totally abandoned in favor of direct-to-plate imaging, and the quality of digital printing processes rivals that of traditional offset. Updating the book has been a bit like time travel, as I deleted sections devoted to processes that have fallen by the wayside and expanded portions that described new-at-the-time techniques that are now commonplace.
I’m not a designer—I’m a printing geek. I spent half my life in prepress, troubleshooting, fixing jobs, and meeting impossible deadlines. I still love printing. I love the heavy rhythm of presses, the smell of the chemicals, the beehive bustle of a pressroom. I love to see paper roll ...