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The
hub of our digital repro system is the TAIGA SPACE workstations. These are
truly beasts of a computers; Unix-based, with twin processors and 80Gb of
storage space, the TAIGAs control the workflow from Mac to proofer or
platesetter, as well as having a few little tricks of its own:
Trapping
The TAIGA handles all the trapping of all the jobs sent to it, including
imported graphics. The TAIGA even gives a colour display of all the trapped
items of trap and overprint in case you want to edit them yourself.
OPI
Open Prepress Interface on the TAIGA allows low resolution files to be placed
in your document, instead of the larger high resolution version, thus speeding
up processing and file manipulation
Postscript
Editing
When you send a file to a printing device, it is converted into a page
description language called Postscript which the device uses to convert files
for output. Normally, you have no control over this Postscript file once it
has left your computer, but the TAIGA is able to convert it into a
fully-editable screen image. This means that we can view the output file
before it reaches any output device (thus detecting for any potential
problems) as well as being able to change colours, pictures or text without
having to resort to the original document(s).
OUTPUT TO PLATE
Before we output plates we run a digital proof: see PROOFING.
If everything
is okay we output direct to our Screen B1, B2 & B3 on-line platesetters. No
films, no patching down, no contact frames, just fast, accurate, high quality
plates at up to 4000dpi resolution. The plates come out punched and with
colourbars and registration marks, and are placed straight on to the presses:
see
PRINT
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