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This handbook is a comprehensive guide to both the traditional and new, digital technologies involved in all phases of print media production. Electronic media and multimedia are also explained and positioned. The technologies and production systems covered are state-of-the-art and represent a multitude of products from well-known manufacturers worldwide.
The relative positions the printing processes occupy are given on the basis of performance features and the market sectors of print media, while trends for print media production are also high-lighted. As a detailed reference and also standard work, this book is the ideal companion for technically and commercially oriented specialists and management in the graphic arts industry. As for printshops, prepress and postpress operations, publishing houses, the supporting industry and trade associations, this book is also invaluable for experts working on research projects, lecturers, trainees and students at training centers, colleges, polytechs and universities. The content of the Handbook is based on the German edition, translated in cooperation with an international team of translators with experience in publishing and graphic arts subjects.
The easy to find, reliable information supports and complements the skills of the professional in the field, while offering management orientation in reaching strategic and investment decisions and providing students with a sound basis of usable knowledge. The detailed, colored layout and the many pictures, graphics and tables support this easy to use structure. The robust design of the Handbook ensures a long service life, even with daily use. The accompanying CD-ROM enables the reader to perform a full text search within the entire book, and guides him through the comprehensive texts and pictures.

Printing industry --- Printing machinery and supplies --- Printing --- Technological innovations --- Graphics industry --- druktechnieken --- Journalism --- Grafische industrie --- Grafische productieproces --- 686.2 --- 684 --- grafische industrie --- multimedia --- prepress --- 338.755.2 --- AA / International- internationaal --- verwerkende industrie, grafische techniek --- Drukkerij en uitgeverij --- Paper converting machinery --- Manufacturing industries --- Machinery. --- Multimedia systems . --- Manufactures. --- Lasers. --- Photonics. --- Machinery and Machine Elements. --- Media Design. --- Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes. --- Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. --- New optics --- Optics --- Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation --- Masers, Optical --- Optical masers --- Light amplifiers --- Light sources --- Optoelectronic devices --- Nonlinear optics --- Optical parametric oscillators --- Manufactured goods --- Manufactured products --- Products --- Products, Manufactured --- Commercial products --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Machinery --- Machines --- Manufactures --- Power (Mechanics) --- Technology --- Mechanical engineering --- Motors --- Power transmission --- Curious devices --- Grafische sector --- Industrie --- Geschiedenis --- Prognose --- Statistische gegevens --- Atlas --- Museum --- Voorlichting --- Reclame --- Spionage --- Communicatietheorie