Re: Scanning old postcard for use on book cover

["dickbo" <dickbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Preston Earle" <PEarle@triad.rr.com>
To: <scan@leben.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: Scanning old postcard for use on book cover


> "Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca> wrote:
> "  . . . Some printers do not want any sharpening done, as they do it
> within the plate making process."
>
> and
>
> "If the pre-press work will be done elsewhere, ask them, as things like
> covers are often needed to be made oversized to either be wrapped around
> during binding, or in paperbacks, they are cut after binding and a
> certain amount of excess image is supposed to be there so they can make
> it "full bleed" during the trimming process."
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>
> In thirty years of commercial printing, I've never heard of sharpening
> "within the plate making process." If "some printers" do this, they are
> in the distinct minority.

He means that little trick some platemakers use in order to obtain harder
edge and slightly smaller dots on the plate. I't called over exposure
really.
>
> Don't you think it is presumptive to give a "Bookbinder" advice on
> binding books?<G>
>
> Preston Earle
> PEarle@triad.rr.com
>
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