Document Imaging

This is the first book to give a comprehensive overview of digital imaging, a field of applied informatics in which computer-graphical methods are developed and applied in prepress, printing, and color reproduction.

Inhalt
1 Preface.- 2 Introduction.- 2.1 A Simple Reference Model for Document Imaging.- 2.2 Topics Covered.- 3 Color Phenomena in Display and Printing.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 The Human Eye.- 3.2.1 Retina: Rods for Brightness and Cones for Chromaticity.- 3.3 Eye Response Functions.- 3.4 Illuminants (Daylight, A, B, C, D50, D65) and White Point.- 3.5 Metamere Colors.- 3.6 Tristimulus vs. Opponent Color Theory.- 3.7 Model of Vision for Colored Objects.- 3.8 Equally Distant Color Systems.- 3.9 Color in Printing: RGB, CMY(K), CIE Lab*, and Separations.- 3.10 Halftoning.- 3.11 Simple Model for Halftoning Screens.- 3.12 Clustered Dot Halftoning.- 3.13 Dot Shapes.- 3.14 Overprinting of Multiple Separations.- 3.15 Rational vs. Irrational Screens.- 3.16 FM screens.- 3.17 AM, FM, and Dot Gain.- 3.18 A Simple Printing Model: The Neugebauer Equations.- 3.19 Printing Processes on an Offset Press.- 3.20 Press Measurement.- 4 Fully Digital Workflow for CIM for Print.- 4.1 Creative Systems.- 4.2 Layout Tools.- 4.3 Imposition Tools.- 4.4 OPI Servers.- 4.5 RIPs.- 4.6 Trapping.- 4.7 Image Setters.- 4.8 Plate Copiers.- 4.9 Presses.- 4.10 Finishing Equipment.- 5 Formats.- 5.1 PostScript.- 5.2 Acrobat and Portable Document Format.- 5.3 Tagged Image File Format (TIFF).- 5.4 CGM.- 5.5 Image Interchange Facility (IPI-IIF).- 5.6 Prepress Interchange Formats.- 5.7 PhotoCD.- 5.8 Document Related Standards.- 6 Problem Areas.- 6.1 Color.- 6.2 Fonts.- 6.3 Resource Requirements.- 7 The Integration Problem.- 7.1 Integration of different Formats.- 7.2 Conversion to a single Format.- 7.3 Integration without Conversion.- 8 Information Interchange for the Production.- 8.1 Media Use for Information Interchange.- 8.2 Interchange of Editable Objects.- 8.3 Advertisement Transmission from Prepress to Newspapers.- 8.4 The CIP3 Print Production Format (PPF).- 9 Outlook: From Printing to Cross Media Publishing.- Bibliography and References.