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Camera ready copy
Hope this doesn't seem a slightly off the wall question! But if somebody
asks for 'camera ready copy' in Word what exactly do they mean?!!!! |
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They mean copy that will be reproduced exactly. Although printing nowadays
is often "computer-to-plate" (meaning that the printer will want your document as an electronic file of some sort), old-fashioned offset printers make their plates by photographing typeset copy. I've prepared a lot of CRC in my day (that's what I prefer to do, in fact), and this can be handled in various ways. If you have a printer that is capable of 1200 dpi, that's plenty good enough for CRC (even high-resolution imagesetters use only 2400, I think), and 600 dpi is usually not too bad for text. Sometimes, however, you'll be asked to create CRC that is some fixed percentage larger than the ultimate output, and the printer will "shoot it down" to the correct size (which increases the effective resolution). This is especially practical if you're printing a standard octavo book (usually about 6" x 9") and preparing the copy on Letter-sized paper. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "C Tate" wrote in message ... Hope this doesn't seem a slightly off the wall question! But if somebody asks for 'camera ready copy' in Word what exactly do they mean?!!!! |
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C Tate wrote:
Hope this doesn't seem a slightly off the wall question! But if somebody asks for 'camera ready copy' in Word what exactly do they mean?!!!! In offset printing (the cheapest, easiest method), someone uses a press camera to take a picture of each original page. Through several steps the negative from that camera is used to make printing plates that apply ink to sheets of paper. The original page is "camera ready" when it contains all the text and graphics that should be in the final printing, and nothing else. (Technically, since the film in the press camera is insensitive to light blue, it's possible to write comments on camera ready pages with light blue pencil. This is usually allowed only in the margins, though.) It means a spell-check has been done, all corrections have been made, all fonts and formatting are in place, headers and footers are included, etc. This isn't exclusively a Word thing -- in fact, once you've used the computer printer to put a Word document on paper, it doesn't matter whether the pages came from Word or from Mars. In fact, I would never say that a document is "camera ready" while it exists only as an electronic document. The amount of work needed to convert camera ready copy into printing plates, and the extra work and expense that may be needed to fix errors after that stage, mean that you have to be very sure that everything is right before you say the pages are "camera ready". -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Thank you both very much indeed for such helpful replies. Is there anything
I can refer to to learn even more about this? (It sounds like just making sure your document is perfect for the camera though there are sometimes other considerations such as the CRC being a fixed percentage larger than the ultimate output). "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... C Tate wrote: Hope this doesn't seem a slightly off the wall question! But if somebody asks for 'camera ready copy' in Word what exactly do they mean?!!!! In offset printing (the cheapest, easiest method), someone uses a press camera to take a picture of each original page. Through several steps the negative from that camera is used to make printing plates that apply ink to sheets of paper. The original page is "camera ready" when it contains all the text and graphics that should be in the final printing, and nothing else. (Technically, since the film in the press camera is insensitive to light blue, it's possible to write comments on camera ready pages with light blue pencil. This is usually allowed only in the margins, though.) It means a spell-check has been done, all corrections have been made, all fonts and formatting are in place, headers and footers are included, etc. This isn't exclusively a Word thing -- in fact, once you've used the computer printer to put a Word document on paper, it doesn't matter whether the pages came from Word or from Mars. In fact, I would never say that a document is "camera ready" while it exists only as an electronic document. The amount of work needed to convert camera ready copy into printing plates, and the extra work and expense that may be needed to fix errors after that stage, mean that you have to be very sure that everything is right before you say the pages are "camera ready". -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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In the "olden days" when I created documents on a typewriter, CRC was
routinely "shot down" because typewriter text was large and ungainly and illustrations that weren't necessarily perfect were enhanced by reduction. In those days, graphs, drawings, photographs, etc., had to be pasted up on the CRC. If you'd ever visited a newspaper or an ad agency, you would have seen people "making up pages" in this way. Creating a document using page layout software (or even word processing software such as Word) is exponentially easier than it was in those days! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "C Tate" wrote in message ... Thank you both very much indeed for such helpful replies. Is there anything I can refer to to learn even more about this? (It sounds like just making sure your document is perfect for the camera though there are sometimes other considerations such as the CRC being a fixed percentage larger than the ultimate output). "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... C Tate wrote: Hope this doesn't seem a slightly off the wall question! But if somebody asks for 'camera ready copy' in Word what exactly do they mean?!!!! In offset printing (the cheapest, easiest method), someone uses a press camera to take a picture of each original page. Through several steps the negative from that camera is used to make printing plates that apply ink to sheets of paper. The original page is "camera ready" when it contains all the text and graphics that should be in the final printing, and nothing else. (Technically, since the film in the press camera is insensitive to light blue, it's possible to write comments on camera ready pages with light blue pencil. This is usually allowed only in the margins, though.) It means a spell-check has been done, all corrections have been made, all fonts and formatting are in place, headers and footers are included, etc. This isn't exclusively a Word thing -- in fact, once you've used the computer printer to put a Word document on paper, it doesn't matter whether the pages came from Word or from Mars. In fact, I would never say that a document is "camera ready" while it exists only as an electronic document. The amount of work needed to convert camera ready copy into printing plates, and the extra work and expense that may be needed to fix errors after that stage, mean that you have to be very sure that everything is right before you say the pages are "camera ready". -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Not nearly as much fun, though. Don't you miss the smell of wax, or all
those hours spent Letrasetting the headings? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... In the "olden days" when I created documents on a typewriter, CRC was routinely "shot down" because typewriter text was large and ungainly and illustrations that weren't necessarily perfect were enhanced by reduction. In those days, graphs, drawings, photographs, etc., had to be pasted up on the CRC. If you'd ever visited a newspaper or an ad agency, you would have seen people "making up pages" in this way. Creating a document using page layout software (or even word processing software such as Word) is exponentially easier than it was in those days! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "C Tate" wrote in message ... Thank you both very much indeed for such helpful replies. Is there anything I can refer to to learn even more about this? (It sounds like just making sure your document is perfect for the camera though there are sometimes other considerations such as the CRC being a fixed percentage larger than the ultimate output). "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... C Tate wrote: Hope this doesn't seem a slightly off the wall question! But if somebody asks for 'camera ready copy' in Word what exactly do they mean?!!!! In offset printing (the cheapest, easiest method), someone uses a press camera to take a picture of each original page. Through several steps the negative from that camera is used to make printing plates that apply ink to sheets of paper. The original page is "camera ready" when it contains all the text and graphics that should be in the final printing, and nothing else. (Technically, since the film in the press camera is insensitive to light blue, it's possible to write comments on camera ready pages with light blue pencil. This is usually allowed only in the margins, though.) It means a spell-check has been done, all corrections have been made, all fonts and formatting are in place, headers and footers are included, etc. This isn't exclusively a Word thing -- in fact, once you've used the computer printer to put a Word document on paper, it doesn't matter whether the pages came from Word or from Mars. In fact, I would never say that a document is "camera ready" while it exists only as an electronic document. The amount of work needed to convert camera ready copy into printing plates, and the extra work and expense that may be needed to fix errors after that stage, mean that you have to be very sure that everything is right before you say the pages are "camera ready". -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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You used wax? We used rubber cement -- almost as much fun as cannabis!
We had a little photosetter for headlines, but we did use tons of Letraset for labeling illustrations. I still have a box of it tucked away under my desk (not far from the slide rule). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:57:20 +1100, "Jezebel" wrote: Not nearly as much fun, though. Don't you miss the smell of wax, or all those hours spent Letrasetting the headings? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... In the "olden days" when I created documents on a typewriter, CRC was routinely "shot down" because typewriter text was large and ungainly and illustrations that weren't necessarily perfect were enhanced by reduction. In those days, graphs, drawings, photographs, etc., had to be pasted up on the CRC. If you'd ever visited a newspaper or an ad agency, you would have seen people "making up pages" in this way. Creating a document using page layout software (or even word processing software such as Word) is exponentially easier than it was in those days! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "C Tate" wrote in message ... Thank you both very much indeed for such helpful replies. Is there anything I can refer to to learn even more about this? (It sounds like just making sure your document is perfect for the camera though there are sometimes other considerations such as the CRC being a fixed percentage larger than the ultimate output). "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... C Tate wrote: Hope this doesn't seem a slightly off the wall question! But if somebody asks for 'camera ready copy' in Word what exactly do they mean?!!!! In offset printing (the cheapest, easiest method), someone uses a press camera to take a picture of each original page. Through several steps the negative from that camera is used to make printing plates that apply ink to sheets of paper. The original page is "camera ready" when it contains all the text and graphics that should be in the final printing, and nothing else. (Technically, since the film in the press camera is insensitive to light blue, it's possible to write comments on camera ready pages with light blue pencil. This is usually allowed only in the margins, though.) It means a spell-check has been done, all corrections have been made, all fonts and formatting are in place, headers and footers are included, etc. This isn't exclusively a Word thing -- in fact, once you've used the computer printer to put a Word document on paper, it doesn't matter whether the pages came from Word or from Mars. In fact, I would never say that a document is "camera ready" while it exists only as an electronic document. The amount of work needed to convert camera ready copy into printing plates, and the extra work and expense that may be needed to fix errors after that stage, mean that you have to be very sure that everything is right before you say the pages are "camera ready". -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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