Customer Reviews

A Guide to Graphic Print Production

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I teach first & second year multimedia and design at a community college. Following are my thoughts on this book.

Pros:
Summaries- The sidebar summaries and callouts are truly excellent. Often, there are accompanying illustrations that are "worth a thousand words".

Depth of information- Overall, there is a *lot* of information here. No punches are pulled when it's presented, either. As far as I can tell, the information is accurate.

Images- The illustrations and photos used are of excellent quality. There are images of magnified printed pages from different printing process that are crystal clear.

Cons:
Typos- There is at least one typo per page, often combined with a grammatical error as well. 99% of the time you can figure out what it means with little to no trouble.

European Conventions used inconsistently- Most of the time, the authors used North American conventions...except when they don't. It's a great idea to give info on both North American *and* European conventions (A4 vs. 8.5" x 11" paper, pixels per inch vs. centimeters per inch), but the authors do not always clearly delineate which convention is used.


Overall, this book reads like a detailed technical manual. It is *not* a design manual with splashy sidebars about finding inspiration. It is *not* for the novice designer. The publisher needs to get it proofed a time or three. Despite its shortcomings, I use it in the course of building lectures for my class constantly. The only other book I've seen get this in-depth is the Int'l Paper Pocket Pal.

This review is for the second edition of the book.

Yes ok , this book may be full of useful information for graphic designers or students of graphic design but the thing that really miffed me is that I spent $80 on this book and come to read it and find that virtually every page has AT LEAST one typo or obvious gramatical error in it. As a student of graphic design (who really cant afford an $80 book) this really bugs me that so much emphasis is put on spell checking your work over and over to make sure there are no mistakes and then you buy a book all about graphic design and it's jam packed with typo's! How unproffessional is that?! And that is why I only give it one star. If you can get past the typo's and the gramatical errors that make the difficult subject matter even more difficult to digest then go ahead and get the book cos it will be worth it - but if so little effort was put into spell checking the book - it makes me wonder about the accuracy and the validity of the information contained.

There is good information in this book, but to find it you must dig through a heap of grammatical errors and typos. I wish I had known this beforehand, because I would not have settled for this massive mistake of a text book. Not to mention, this is the Second Edition. I would hate to see all the mistakes in the First. If we, as college students and/or designers, are going to spend time reading through this book, someone over at Wiley Publishing should have taken the time to do so - and make corrections. To find the information I need, I am not going to weed through broken sentences. I would suggest that you make every attempt to avoid this book.

Absolutely every chapter has at least 10 misspellings or grammatical errors in it. It is quite funny how in the first chapter they stress how important it is to proof copy before it goes to the printer. Maybe the authors or the publisher need to read the book themselves. It is a very dry book and each chapter covers the main points with in the first few pages then repeats the topics over and over again through out the rest of the chapter. I would not recommend this book unless the person does not mind being distracted by misspelling, grammatical errors, and repetition.

I teach at a college level and production is very hard for the students to understand. This book explains everything in a great manor.

the book was everything they said it would be. arrived earlier than expected in very good condition!

The book is full of wonderful information that any graphics student/enthusiast should know, but EVERY page it seems has HUGE typos. Some words are even the complete wrong word "dot" instead of "does" or "pwdr" instead of "powder". This book isn't that expensive, but when I'm learning something or referring to a book for information (instead of the unreliable internet) I want to be confident in the information I am gathering. Due to the many typos I am not always sure their information is right. On a happier note, the print quality is awesome and the design work is something I would expect a graphics book to look like. So, 4 1/2 stars on the graphics side, 1 star on the grammatical portion and 3 on the info only because I am not always so confident in the information.

This book has a ton of great information, and has been very helpful. But I have to agree that it is filled with typos, which makes them look bad. BUT the HUGE problem with this book it the text is too freaking small. These
idiot 's should have known this being graphic designers/printers, it is SO hard to read. They made the text at about a 9 or 10 point. And no, I am not farsighted, or really old and can't see, I am a young graphic designer, but find it VERY hard to read this text.

Because of this I wouldn't reccommend this book, find a different book that knows how to spell, and knows not to make the reading text a 9 point

This book offers tons of good information in a nicely designed format, but you can tell it has been translated into English. The grammar is terrible and there are misspelled running rampant throughout the pages. I'd recommend it, but be aware that some of the passages are hard to interpret because of the language barrier.

Shipping was easy and cheap, so I was expecting it to take longer for me to actually receive it. Well two days later I came home from work with the book on my porch.