Clean Positives to Web Enabled Collaboration

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When digital prepress made its appearance back in the 80s, it truly revolutionised the way reprography was done. The ‘mechanicals’ from the art department with linework neatly drawn using black ruling pens and tone percentages marked on the overleaf gave way to digital files with all sorts of fancy elements on the page. This was a time of vignettes galore just because it was possible to create them in graphics software. Decades of labouring with film negatives, positives, contacts, and dot-etching became obsolete when large format imagesetters began to output fully laid-out films (a.k.a. ‘clean positives’), which went straight to the platemaker. ...cont´d

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