Preparing camera-ready copy

You need to prepare camera-ready copy

• if you are duplicating documents by photocopying, or
• if the printer will make plates or print directly from the copy you provide.

• Make very clear, dark lines and text by using
  • a pen with dark black ink
  • a black felt tip pen
  • a laser printer, or
  • a typewriter or dot matrix printer with a new ribbon.
• Use photographs with good color contrast.
• Use clean illustrations with good contrast.
• Clean up any marks or smudges with correction fluid.
• Eliminate paste-up lines on photocopies by making one photocopy and using correction fluid on the unwanted lines. Then copy from that copy.

  Caution:

  The copy may not be as sharp as the original.

• Use a light blue pencil for any layout marks you write on the original.

  Note:

  The camera that reproduces the image on a plate for the offset press is not sensitive to light blue. The marks will not show.

• Working with a print shop
• What is a photocopy machine?

• Task module: Preparing camera-ready copy
• In task module: Preparing to print literacy materials
• In task module: Producing printed materials, by Anne Klaassens (contributor), Robin Rempel (contributor), Trudy K. Stewart (general editor, contributor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), Diane Wroge (contributor), and Adelle R. Walter (illustrator)
• In task module: Developing instructional materials, by Trudy K. Stewart, Leah B. Walter (contributor), and Trudi C. Hunt (contributor)
• In task module: Developing an instructional program, by Kenneth A. Boothe (contributor), Patricia M. Davis (contributor), Trudy K. Stewart (general editor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), and Adelle R. Walter (illustrator)
• In task module: Implementing a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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