Xerox 5252 manual About color printing

2.About color printing

Overview

Traditional offset printing requires time, people, materials, and many steps to produce quality color output. Digital technology is changing the way the printing industry works. All the steps that used to be performed for offset printing have now been digitized and can be performed on your computer. The digital color press makes it possible for you to print fast, offset-quality images.

The flexibility and control offered by digital technologies and software applications can give you excellent results. Understanding the variables that affect the output image quality. These variables include: the quality of the original that is scanned into a computer, resolution, color management, imaging technology and a variety of other factors, are some of the things you need to understand to maximize your results.

To help you use all this new digital desktop technology, this chapter provides you with information about how to produce color images that will give you high-quality output prints.

2 About color printing

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