Getting the picture: take stock of your photographic options for publishing
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Ready-made photographs are a neglected but frequently superior means of illustration that can effectively and economically reinforce the message of advertisements, corporate publications and editorial articles. Commercial stock houses provide readily available photographs for advertising and corporate clients. Other stock houses may specialize in either documentary or historical pictures. Many have a toll-free number and free catalogs available. In some cases it is also possible to preview stock photographs either on-line or on disc. Most commercial picture agencies charge a research fee of $50 to $75 to locate an appropriate picture, though the fee is frequently applied towards the reproduction charges. Libraries, government agencies and historical societies often have supplies of ready-made photographs, although accessing them can be time-consuming and the quality is sometimes inferior.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1992
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Making the right connections; high-speed telecommunications services give publishers new options
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A high-speed telecommunications service is a viable tool to have for connecting a Web server to the Internet, forwarding finished documents or sending graphics. Sending data over high-speed lines is much faster and usually less expensive than sending hardcopy with a courier service. Fast networks facilitate a collaborative work space. The wide array of services, products and standards needed for a system often repel publishing professionals out of sheer bewilderment. Creating a digital telecommunications system involves integrating a carrier for the physical infrastructure and transmission, a line that determines throughput speeds and a service, which adheres to a standard. The various digital telecommunications services protocols include 56Kbps, X.25, Leased T1 and T3, Frame Relay, ISDN, Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS), ATM and (Very Small Aperture Terminal) VSAT.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1996
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VUE/Point: publishers tell it like it is
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Attendees of the Mar 1997 Vendor User Exchange/Point (VUE/Point) electronic publishing conference express overall satisfaction with the development and general understanding of digital printing technology. Companies such as Noalart primarily seek to enter into printing contracts that require exceptionally fast turnaround times and a high degree of customer service, contracts in which quality of work is not the main criterion. Variable-data printing (VDP) technology remains largely immature, and most applications for the printing process have been in the mail-merge fields such as invitations and personalized correspondences. However, VDP technology is being used by enterprising companies as a way of providing 24-hour turnaround for customers, and computer-to-plate printing technology is gaining in investment percentages throughout the industry.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1997
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