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Digital Prepress Complete

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This book would have benefited greatly from better editing (many spelling errors, some pictures seem incorrect), but it does a very good job at what it claims: making sense of the complex business of digital prepress. I'm new to the industry too, but I have learned one thing and that is there is no such thing as prepress for beginners! Even the smallest jobs mean you have to deal with very difficult issues. The best you can hope for is to learn from your mistakes and seek the guidance of worthwhile resources like this one.

I see Mr. OQuinn is planning a new book on prepress--if it is up to date and better edited (see his in a Nutshell book!) I will most certianly make the investment.

This book is very clear and very well written. I am not a graphcs professional, but I need to do my own desktop publishing, and this is the only book I really use. It taught me everything I needed to know to work with print shops/service bureaus and to make sure that my final product was a success.

I started reading this book and, after I realized how many errors were in it, I started marking them all with Post-it notes. I went through about three packs of notes. This book was so horribly edited, I wrote an e-mail to the author complaining about it. He responded with one excuse after another (the publisher rushed him, the editor was an idiot, blah, blah, blah). I told him I thought I had been swindled out of the $55 I had paid for it. He promised to send me a free copy of the revised version. I never heard from him again.

Unfortunately, it appears Mr. O'Quinn has attempted to write a few other books since he wrote this one. It should say something that, although I bought this book 10 years ago, this incident still sticks in my craw. I'll never buy another O'Quinn book.

This book has served not only as an excellent desk reference, but a very well written explanation of in-depth prepress techniques. From setting up your workstation(s) to the capabilities of applications to making sure every print job goes out right... this is THE book.