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Digital Prepress vs. Traditional Prepress

By Jacci Howard Bear, About.com

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Printing

Printing and Traditional Prepress. The printing process went from Paste-up to Film to Flats for imposition (if required) to Plates to Printing.

Printing and Digital Prepress. The process may remain the same or similar (Laser Output to Film to Plates) but other processes are possible including output directly to film from the digital file or directly from digital file to plate.

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