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Chapter 8 Printing, Layout and Make-up
Halftones

Journalist 3 & 2 - Introduction to Journalism and other reporting practices
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A drafting board or table A prepared paste-up (layout) sheet A “T” square A steel straightedge Rulers Rubber  cement Erasers An india ink set A cutting edge (X-acto knife or single-edge razor blade) Light blue (nonphoto blue) lead pencils Scissors A scale system to determine photo-reproduction size A printer’s rule PHOTO-OFFSET  ARTWORK Artwork used in photo-offset printing includes line art and halftone art. These are covered in the information that follows. Line Art Line   art   (illustrations,   rules,   headlines,   borders, cartoons,  crossword  puzzles)  and  any  other  piece  of solid-color art to be included on the paste-up should be enlarged or reduced to the exact size allotted for it on the layout sheet. Type proofs must be carefully checked to see that the lines of type are straight and the proofs are pasted down square with the page. These proofs, as well as art, must be handled with great care. The camera records  every  error  and  every  smudge  of  a  careless paste-up. For you to corrector eradicate such errors is always costly and often impossible after the plates are made. Ordinarily, light-blue lines are used on the paste-ups to indicate margins. Light blue will not show up in the final photography. If necessary, you can draw in blue lines  yourself,  but  in  a  week-to-week  operation,  it  is much  better  to  have  them  printed  on  standard  layout sheets.  Check  with  your  publisher  for  advice  before having your layout sheets printed on the various types of margins that should be marked — and on the amount of extra white space to leave for the publisher to work with. Any lines you want to appear on the finished page must be drawn or pasted in, in black, on the paste-up sheet.  Only  lines  in  black  india  ink  will  reproduce clearly on the offset plates. There  is  also  a  number  of  alphabets  printed  on sheets of transparent acetate or cellophane you may use for headlines. These sheets have adhesive on one side for pastedown purposes. When using them, you simply cut out the letters with a knife and apply them to the paste-up.  Paste-up  and  pressure  transfer  alphabets  are known by their trade names, such as Formatt and Artype. Figure  8-2  shows  how  paste-up  lettering  is  prepared. Another preferred method is to draw guidelines on the Figure  8-2.—Paste-up  lettering. 8-2







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