Efi Arazi goes the distance for short-run color
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Efi Arazi, founder of Scitex and subsequently Electronics For Imaging (EFI), began EFI with color printing and color portability in mind. The technology is developed for upgrading color copiers presently in use in quick-print shops, into high-quality color printers, and uses a PostScript controller with color portability. Short-run color printing in the office on an electrophotographic printer can bring color printing into the low-end marketplace, for applications that only require a small number of copies. The break-even point between traditional offset printing and short-run color printing is related to the cost of 30 cents to 50 cents per page for the exact number of copies that are needed when done in short-run, opposed to the cost of 10 cents per copy at about 10,000 copies done on a traditional press, or over $1 per page for a small traditional press.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1992
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Robert Lockwood and the art of change
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Robert Lockwood, a well-known newspaper designer who has done 50 newspaper designs, is interviewed. Lockwood believes the most important thing about newspaper design newspapers is keeping up with a changing world and with an audience that is changed by the events that the news covers. Lockwood says desktop publishing has had a profound impact, freeing publishers from the linear progressions associated with assembly lines. Desktop publishing represents a return of control to the individual. Lockwood says page layout is somewhat like architecture, but it is perhaps more like city planning, tying pathways together. Lockwood recently finished his first book, News By Design (Quark Press, $29.95). The fundamental message of the book is 'the art of change,' whether in organizations, in society or in design.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1992
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Signposts of our Time
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Nigel Holmes, graphics director of Time magazine, advises graphic designers to consider what kind of information they are representing before visually creating a map or pictorial map. Designers must decide if the map should contain highlights of certain information and how these highlights would best reflect the information at hand. Pie charts are overused and column-oriented graphs can still express information interestingly. Software packages alone cannot create maps, so a wise designer will weed out the worst software as part of the job. Practice, more than creativity, will help broaden designers' conceptualizations and executions. A clear order of which information to read first helps the clarity and design of an information graphic as well.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1991
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