CA 143 - Prepress and Image Assembly
- Prerequisite: CA 132
- Corequisite: CA 142
- CA majors only
Prepress and Image Assembly focuses on producing composited film for platemaking. Emphasis is on the preparation of the mechanical to output to an imagesetter as film negatives for platemaking. Includes image assembly, line conversion, full color separation as well as proofing.
Contact: 4 hours lecture per week
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of CA 143, the student will be able to:
- Layout, measure, and rule the following guidelines:
- edge of sheet
- gripper margins
- plate clamp
- center marks
- Make appropriate corrections to film negative and flat.
- Produce a 16-page signature dummy with proper
- impositions
- pagination
- directions.
- Produce a job using
- screen tints at the correct screen angles
- special effects created in the prep department
- undercuts and spreads
- Strip a flat for
- single color envelopes
- single color work and turn imposition
- single color work and tumble imposition
- single color that includes screen tints
- line and half tone combination
- Strip single color flats for
- 4-page signature
- 8-page signature
- step and repeat without a pin register
- step and repeat with a pin register
- Strip multicolor with
- color quality control bars
- masking films as a mechanical negative
- Strip a job containing
- duotone
- tritone
- process color
- Strip an 8-page signature with crossovers.