2.5 Use of ICT in PublishingMomina

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1. Typesetting

2. Transmission of completed pages

Production of a news paper

3. Printing : Method 1 or Method 24. Plate making 5. Offset Lithography (Process)

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Production of a Newspaper

Correspondents send in their

stories from the location of the story – done by

email

Received at the editorial staff- the

collect and send the stories to the newspaper

journalists as the main office.

Page layout of the newspaper is

created

The process is then completed when

the document has been edited to

remove any mistakes.

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1. Typesetting

– Layout of the typed page: needs to be easy to read. How can this be done: Correct font Correct size Kerning-space between individual letters in a word Leading (pronounced “Ledding”)-space between the lines on

the page. Length of each line Size of the body text font.

– Difficult job– Off for plate making

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2. Transmitting Complete Pages

• The accepted layout of the page has been received and is approved; this is then send to the printing plant. Two ways of doing this:

Way OneWay two

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3a) The First Way of Printing

1. Page is printed2. Image is burned onto a light-sensitive

film3. Page placed in large fax machine4. The image is transferred to the print

plant

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3b) The Second Way of Printing

1. The news paper is completed in digital form

2. This is then sent to the satellites3. It is then transmitted by the satellite

to various printing plants (Owned by the company)

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4. Computerised Plate Making

1. Images from negatives are transferred to printing plates

2. Ultraviolet light passes through the film negatives; exposing the printing plate

3. A chemical reaction occurs 4. This causes the light-sensitive coating

on the aluminium to develop an image.

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5. Printing-Offset Lithography

1. Aluminium plate is fixed into printing press.

2. This press consists of 3 rollers:a. Plate cylinderb. Blanket cylinderc. Impression cylinder

3. Aluminium plates are flexible bend around the plate cylinder

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Printing – Offset Lithography

4. Roller with plate attached has ink directed onto it

5. This then rotates against the blanket cylinder (this is rubberised -> roller forms and image on the plate roller)

6. Blanket roller presses against the paper the image is printed

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Printing – Offset Lithography

6. The third roller presses paper against the blanket cylinder

7. Large sheets printed (copies of the news paper) cut into separate versions of the news paper.