Fw: Scanning old postcard for use on book cover

["dickbo" <dickbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "dickbo" <dickbo@btopenworld.com>
To: <scan@leben.com>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: Scanning old postcard for use on book cover


> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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."
> > --------------------
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > and
> >
> > 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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