The printing process is captured in photos by Marquand Senior Designer John Hubbard.
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Folded magazine signatures await collating (gathering) at C&C Offset Printing Co., China, 2001.
Blue roller wheels on conveyor line at CS Graphics, Singapore, 2000.
Signature gathering line at Prosperous Printing Factory, Shenzhen, China, 2007.
Yellow ink trough in a Heidelberg Speedmaster 5-color offset press at CS Graphics, Singapore, 2000.
Here are a few different images of make-ready sheets shot on press by Marquand Senior Designer John Hubbard. Make-ready sheets are the result of running paper through a printing press in order to align its plates. This helps achieve the right balance of plate pressure and ink density to match the client’s color proofs.
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A typical sight at a book printing plant, this ready-made includes a standard test press sheet with color bars and gradients used to test the press and calibrate plate curves.
Detail of a make-ready made sheet from Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence 2000, designed by Marquand Books for UW Press.
Discarded offset printing rubber blanket from a sheet of random images sent for wet printing, 2000.
Make-ready from Dangerous Curves: The Art of the Guitar 2000, designed by Marquand Books for MFA Boston.
Here are a few different perspectives on the printing process, captured in photos by Marquand Senior Designer John Hubbard. We can practically smell the ink and fresh-cut paper!
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Found perspective on a color test form (press sheet) at CS Graphics in Singapore, 2004.
Macro detail of the edges of random sheets of specialty papers at CS Graphics in Singapore, 2004.
Detail of vintage wood type make-ready press sheet at Marquand Editions, Tieton, 2008.
Archive of film for books before Digital-to-Plate technology made film obsolete. CS Graphics, Singapore, 2000.
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