Daily Dose of DTP: 25. PS, Check Your Toner

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Daily Dose of DTP 25. PS, Check Your Toner From Jacci Howard Bear, your Guide to Desktop Publishing One of the last steps in the desktop publishing process is the printing. In practice, you'll be printing throughout the design, layout, and prepress stages - printing drafts, early proofs, camera-ready copy, and perhaps even the final product to your desktop printer. Chances are that desktop printer is either a laser or an inkjet printer. Let's look at lasers first. While closely associated with desktop printing, laser printing technology is also used in some commercial printing. And hand-in-hand with lasers (and sometimes inkjets) is the question of PostScript. Class Notes: This is not simply a word-a-day course. The lessons follow a specific order in roughly the following groupings: General concepts > Things you need > Font specifics > Image specifics > Prepress & Printing > Rules & Tutorials (bold indicates the stage in which th is lesson falls) Today's Definitions Laser Printing Static electricity is good for more than just making your hair stand on end. Do You Need a PostScript Printer? If you are a professional desktop publisher who works with commercial printers and service bureaus you will probably need to know and use PostScript. Today's Trivia PS, It's PostScript Is it Postscript, postscript, or PostScript? Although you'll find it written all three ways all over the Web, Adobe writes it PostScript (uppercase P & S). PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Within some articles on the About Desktop Publishing site and elsewhere you may encounter the abbreviation PS for PostScript. PS might also be used to stand for Photoshop. Look at the use in context to discover which is intended. Q&A How Do Adobe PostScript Levels 1, 2, and 3 Differ? After reading the PostScript Printer article in this lesson one student designer wondered exactly what Level 3 PostScript means. This FAQ was born. This email is written by: Jacci Howard Bear Desktop Publishing Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com 'Daily Dose of DTP' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement