Data formats in digital prepress technology

Author

Mandic, Lidija ; Grgic, Sonja ; Srdic, Ida

Author_Institution

Fac. of Graphic Art, Zagreb, Croatia

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

437

Lastpage

440

Abstract

The printing industry is on its way to become a multimedia industry. Printing will not be the only media and means of outputting information. Printed products and online media have a common prepress stage (premedia) which only diverges just before the functional output as electronic media or as printed media. A good example of the potential of the multimedia market is the use of efficient workflow. The data file can be directly transmitted to different media by efficient workflow. Thanks to digital technology, all captured text and image data can be used for multimedia purposes. An incorrect data format can affect the quality of a prepress product. The aim of this article is to discuss the most prevalent data formats used in open prepress systems.

Keywords

file organisation; multimedia computing; open systems; printing industry; data formats; digital prepress technology; efficient workflow; multimedia industry; open prepress systems; premedia; printing industry; Communication industry; Electronic mail; Electronic publishing; Graphics; Image resolution; Layout; Page description languages; Pixel; Printers; Printing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Video/Image Processing and Multimedia Communications 4th EURASIP-IEEE Region 8 International Symposium on VIPromCom

Print_ISBN

953-7044-01-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VIPROM.2002.1026698

Filename

1026698