Re: "camera-ready original"

Subject: Re: "camera-ready original"
From: Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:30:47 -0500

Poshedly, Ken wrote:

"Camera-ready" goes back to pre-desktop publishing days, when
newspapers, magazines, etc., were produced by using a special camera to
photograph a board of the exact size of the desired page. The board had
on it separate strips of paper of typeset material that were stuck on
via hot wax. All the headlines, body text, photos were attached
separately.


Spot color and full color images were handled a bit differently. In those cases a separate plate was made for each spot color, or if process color were used, different plates were made for each process color used to make the spot color. Color images required three addition plates beyond the black plate-magenta, cyan and yellow. The printing process is still used today; however, the colors are separated and the plates made electronically.

After all the stories, photos, etc., were in place, that board was
"camera-ready" and was sent on to the next step where it was
photographed, a negative produced and a metal plate was made for the
printing presses. (Do you know what "printing presses" were? <grin>)


Printing presses are....they are alive and well, just not used as much in the technical writing world because most of our stuff is short run and constantly changing. However, even that is changing. I've sent high quality PDFs to a printer for short run projects (less than 2,000 16-page manuals) and got back exceptional results. They used the PDFs to directly burn (make) the printing plates. This is the norm today....but printing presses are used for the final output.

Today, it just means clean output from your laser printer of material
you've done by desktop publishing - your output is literally
"camera-ready", that is suitable for further photocopying.


Not necessarily....it means clean output with all the images imbedded for your laser printer, if that is the intended output. If the output includes color images, and you want them to look good after printing, then don't expect a standard photocopier to do them justice.

Al

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RE: "camera-ready original": From: Poshedly, Ken

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