Talking about how the publishing house controls the printing quality of books
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As we all know, book quality includes the content quality of the book, the quality of the binding design and the quality of the printing. With the improvement of people's living standards, people buy books not only focus on the quality of the content, but also the books are not beautiful, that is, the book design and printing quality (for convenience, we refer to the printing quality for convenience) Becoming a very important criterion for measuring the quality of books. High-quality design and printing levels are more attractive to people, and their trust in book content will ultimately become a decisive factor in buying behavior.
The quality of book printing is also an indispensable factor in evaluating the quality of books. Content and form (appearance) are the two main elements of a book. The printing of books belongs to the appearance of the production of books. A good appearance can better express the content and promote the expression of the content; on the contrary, a bad appearance can not express the content well, which will have a negative impact on the content.
So, who guarantees the quality of the printed book? Since the formation of the book is divided into two stages, the previous stage belongs to the design and preparation stage of the book, and the work is in the publishing house. The latter stage belongs to the production stage of the book, and the work is in the printing enterprise, so everyone generally takes it for granted: Responsible for the quality of the book, the quality of the editing and the quality of the binding design; the printing factory is responsible for the quality of the book binding.
In the era of movable type printing, after the publication of the manuscript of the publishing house, the remaining publishing tasks are handed over to the printing house. The printing factory is responsible for the work of checking words, typesetting, proofreading, plate making, printing, etc. The quality of printing is basically the same as that of the publishing house. Nothing. Nowadays, the pre-press production stage of the book is basically realized by computer typesetting software, binding design software and laser photo-arrangement system. Most of the publishing houses are equipped with a relatively complete electronic publishing system.
Since prepress production brings text and images into the entire printing workflow, its position in the entire printing process is extremely important, so the publisher has an unshirkable responsibility for the quality of the book. In addition, the work of the publishing house in many other aspects will have different degrees of influence on the printing quality of the book. Therefore, the quality of book printing is no longer a matter of printing enterprises. Improving the quality of book printing has become a publishing house and printing company. A common goal.
This paper intends to analyze the many factors affecting the quality of book printing from the perspective of the production management of books, and provide working ideas for the publisher to improve the quality of printing.
First talk about the pre-press production stage.
Prepress production refers to the process of processing an original into a printable copy according to the overall design requirements of the book. Prepress process includes manuscript check, graphic input, graphic editing, graphic output, plate making and proofing. When checking the manuscripts of science and technology books, it is important to check the quality of illustrations (including color maps, black and white image maps, line drawings, etc.): color maps and black and white image maps must have clear images and strong layers. The color should be bright; the lines of the line drawing are clear and full; the resolution must meet the publishing requirements, and the number of lines must generally be above 300l. Since most of the manuscripts submitted by the author to the publishing house are currently disk-based, some of the drawings are also processed by them. If the illustrations do not meet the basic requirements, the publisher should promptly notify the author to provide a better picture or re-production. For the color pictures provided by the author, often use professional drawing software such as Photoshop software of American Adobe to perform processing methods such as morphological transformation, color transformation, gradation correction, image modification, special effect design, and screening color separation. Many of the line drawings in the disk manuscript are scanned by the author from other materials or books. Such pictures are usually redrawn with the corresponding graphics processing software (such as Freehand, CorelDRAW, etc.), if the figure saves things will not meet the requirements. The illustrations are brought to the printing stage and are bound to affect the quality of the print.
The second is the determination of the printing process. The publishing house should work with the printing company to select a reasonable printing process to achieve the best printing results. Book printing generally uses lithographic printing. The inner core printing (monochrome) generally has no special requirements in the process. For the frame making, the publisher often uses some special techniques, such as film (light film, matte film), UV glazing. , embossing, special printing, etc. The use of these special processes is specific to their specific objects and conditions. These factors must be taken into account when designing the frame. If the selection is not appropriate, the printed version will not achieve the desired effect.
Again, the choice of printed materials. The materials printed in books mainly refer to ink and paper. Publishers generally pay less attention to printing inks, and more attention is paid to papers that affect printing costs. The same printing press, using different grades of quality paper, the print quality is very different. Therefore, the publishing house should select different printing materials according to the different requirements of the book. The key books and boutique books can consider high-grade paper and special paper, while the general books choose plain paper.
Finally, talk about the supervision and management of the book printing process by the publishing house. The following measures can be taken:
1. When selecting a fixed-point printing enterprise, conduct a detailed inspection of its qualifications, printing equipment, personnel quality, management level, etc., regularly and irregularly analyze and compare the printing quality of books printed by all fixed-point printing enterprises, and print quality. High should give encouragement, praise, and even increase its printing price; reminders, warnings, lower printing prices, and even stop cooperation for low-quality printing and frequent problems.
2. often go deep into the printing enterprise workshop, check the printed books, so that you can understand the progress of the printed books, and can find quality problems in time, so as to take measures to improve and remedy as soon as possible.
3. adhere to the book review system before the book is bound. The "Book Quality Assurance System" clearly stipulates: "The printing factory must first bind 10 sample books and send them to the publishing house for inspection before each book cover and text is printed and not bound in batches." The person can review the quality of the book before the book is copied in large quantities, and find the problem in time and correct it to avoid unnecessary losses.
4. Conduct random inspections on large-scale printed books sent by the printing factory. In addition to checking the sample books sent by the printing factory, it is necessary to conduct random inspections of large quantities of books according to the number of printed books. Books that fail to pass the random inspection will not be signed into the warehouse. Because the sample books are generally carefully selected by the printing house, if the publishing department only checks the sample book and does not conduct random inspections on large quantities of books, it is very likely that unqualified books will flow into the library.
In summary, under the conditions of market economy, the publishing house has a greater responsibility for improving the quality of book printing, which should be the main body of book printing quality management. Therefore, in addition to conscientiously doing pre-production of books, Strict management of books printed by printing companies is required. In line with the attitude of solving problems and communicating with each other, each with their own responsibilities, close cooperation and joint efforts, can improve the printing quality of books, and provide readers with a comprehensive and unified book of content and form.