DTP

DTP (Desktop Publishing) - a term that primarily refers to all activities related to the preparation of materials on the computer, which will later be duplicated by printing methods. In short, this term means computer preparation for printing. In this sense, the term refers not only to the design phase, ie to the creation of computer-generated images (and shapes) of publishing pages, but also to the management of group work, and even to the computer control of the devices used in the process, such as the platesetters or machines printing. Previously, the preparation for printing was called preparatory or preparatory processes (the direction in the printing school was called today), and consisted mainly of handmade assembly (made in neat) and assembly (in the assembly room), finished with the preparation of materials for the printing house in the imaging room.

Over time, the concept of DTP began to refer to the preparation of documents for publication in electronic form (digital). The DTP process begins with the introduction of text and image into the computer. Individual graphic elements are then individually processed, and text is applied to the text. Then there is an essential part of the process, that is, the pages of the publication from all these elements of the finished design, including the printing of information for the printer and the bookbinder. At this stage of the work, you can also include information about the image of the entire contribution (see imposition). The final step is to save the computer data as a postscript file or (more and more) a PDF file. You can also manage the flow of work in a printing plant and control printing facilities as well as the printing house itself.

It is important that DTP deals not only with the image itself, but also with the shape of the substrate, so the term also applies to the design of, for example, unprinted packaging and other forms cut from paper, cardboard or, for example, shapes cut from self-adhesive foil. < / p>

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