PRE-PRESS PRINTING (4 SCU)

Learning Outcomes:

Students are expected to be able to not only identify and explain basic skills in the prepress printing process, but also produce final art complying to the standards of ready-to-print documents by using a pre-flight checking form by using the appropriate software to prepare the product to print.

In doing so, they must be able to apply and integrate fundamental production techniques and elements by using necessary graphic design software and choose the suitable printing technique according to the characteristic of each process.

Topics:

The course will develop an understanding of the production flow and terminologies in contemporary printing methods as well as to understand the complexity of various print production media. This will enable the students to examine possible areas for confusion in both ‘upstream’ and ‘downstream’ communications during preparing, editing, and production and examine the outcomes expected. Through this course, students also learn how to do printing and acquire knowledge about entrepreneurship from a related industry.