Pocket Pal: A Graphic Arts Production Handbook
This staple text has been valued by publishers, students,  designers, print buyers, and many other graphic communications  segments since its release in 1934. Comprehensive in scope, it offers  a compact education on printing and the related processes. When the  seventeenth edition was published in 1997, digital imaging and  printing were still considered "parts" of printing. Now in the  eighteenth edition, more than relaying its respected, valuable  information on the history and conventional processes of the printing  industry, this updated text recognizes the recent technological  developments within the industry and describes and emphasizes the  areas related to this transition: Typesetting and photography have  been almost completely replaced by digital imaging; the use of films  and their processing and image assembly are being replaced by  computer-to-plate, computer-to-plate-on-press, and computer- to-press  systems; new digital workflows are replacing conventional workflows;  new processless plates and new UV and violet lasers that allow use of  conventional plates; information on toners or digital inks for digital  presses; and color management systems.