Modern plate making technology

Author: Zhang Yixin
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book provides a detailed discussion on the key points of plate-making in three printing processes: letterpress, gravure, and flexography. It offers numerous critical parameters for image scanning and image adjustment that determine plate-making quality. The specific content includes the fundamentals of color separation plate-making process design, original analysis; prepress system color handling, color management principles, and systems; principles of sampling and quantization in image scanning input, scanning input resolution, system design, and process key points; the laws and adjustment principles of tonal reproduction, the laws and adjustment principles of color reproduction, and the principles and processes of clarity enhancement; PageMaker document preset parameter settings, effective and high-quality printing document settings, layout processing, output of spot colors and colors, master page settings, processing and output of scanned images and vector graphics; the characteristics and processes of three halftoning methods, file storage formats, and the key points of knock-out; plate-making inspection in letterpress printing, platemaking process, and standardized quality management, letterpress printing machine proofing process and standardized quality management; gravure plate-making scanning and color separation process, adjustment of gravure electro-engraving tonal curves, color correction, and quality control processes for electro-engraved gravure plates; the production process characteristics and technology of flexographic plates. This book can not only serve as a reference for frontline printing plate-making personnel and researchers to guide practical work but also be used as a textbook for undergraduate or associate degree students in printing technology and packaging printing.