PREPRESS
The word prepress means different things to different people. For Imagesetter,
where we have so many services available, we understand it to be all of
the preparation work necessary to produce a final product, whether that
product is conventional printing, digital printing, presentation materials,
websites or multimedia. Some of the elements of what we consider to be
prepress are listed below. But, in any event, we are prepared to take on
the responsibility for accomplishing your digital communication needs,
whether the particular work you need is listed
or not.
DESIGN SUPPORT
At all times we have on staff, well-trained, highly experienced, graphic
designers to assist you with your projects in any manner you choose.
SCANNING
For your printed materials, we provide the best in drum quality scanning.
For your multi-media work, where the end results are much less demanding,
we can use a faster scanner and charge less to make your budget stretch
further.
IMAGESETTER OUTPUT
True to our original heritage, we still offer the finest in film and RC
paper output from our high resolution imagesetters, so you can have your
printing done with confidence.
PROOFING
We offer several types of proofs. For proofs from your films, we can make
traditional Matchprints. Since many files are not output to film, we offer
two choices to proof your files. Our highest quality proof can be run to
our Indigo digital press. From this method, you actually get a press proof.
In instances where low cost is more important and absolute color accuracy
is less important, we can proof your file on our color-calibrated Canon
color laser printer.
FILE MANAGEMENT AND CONVERSIONS
One of the great strengths we have developed from many years of experience
is the ability to work with files from a wide variety of programs. You
don,t always have the luxury of being provided with data in a convenient
format. Figuring out what to do (or indeed whether the file can be made
to work at all) is frequently a trial and error process which draws more
heavily on experience than on established procedure. We can not solve every
problem every time, but, with our years of experience, we are better at
it than most.