Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 18:08:22 +0000 From: Matt H <matt@proweb.co.uk> To: "Andrew Gould" <andrewgould@yahoo.com> Cc: deepbsd@earthlink.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kplug-list@kernel-panic.org, mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: printing camera-ready mysql report Message-ID: <20020128180822.6faeb18a.matt@proweb.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020128173529.3538.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020128114723.I10374@sylvester.dsj.net> <20020128173529.3538.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:35:29 -0800 (PST) "Andrew Gould" <andrewgould@yahoo.com> wrote: > Please forgive my ignorance; but what is a > "camera-ready document"? It is a document that you take to the printers for him to photograph it and make a printing plate. Alternatively it would be called "camera ready artwork". All the printing places I know round here will take a postscript file though or maybe even a PDF. Often you can email it them or even dial straight in and leave it on their BBS. Then they will print it onto bromide or similar transparent material with an imagesetter. An imagesetter can produce output of 1200dpi and upwards and do colour separations. The macintosh has been the traditional computer in the printing industry and MS pushing true-type in favour of the more useful postscript fonts used to drive me to distraction until the PC market caught up enough to be able to take MS postscript documents and see the proper output! Today's 600dpi laser printers do an adequate job if you can't afford to have bromides made and are not overly concerned with magazine quality documents. (Paper suffers from "dot-creep" so the dpi rating of the final on paper output tends not to be 600dpi which can affect half-tones [the dotty picture version of greyscale/colour separated images]) blimey that turned out longer than I planned! It's been a few years so if anyone has a modern update feel free to correct :) M To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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