GRTC 3352: Image Transfer Technology I

  • Prerequisite: None
  • Credit: 3 semester hours

Course Description

Theoretical and practical aspects of printing presses for single-color reproductions. Use of appropriate quality control devices and standards.

Course Goals

This course is designed to familiarize students with the production of single- and multi-page documents in black-and-white and color. Both traditional (static data) and variable data printing technologies are examined. The course is not intended to produce proficient technicians. Rather, students completing the class will have a broad overview of print production operations so that they may effectively supervise or estimate printing jobs, communicate technically with printing vendors or buyers, and/or design graphic products giving full consideration to the limitations inherent in pre-press operations.

Students completing the course will be familiar with:

  1. printing processes and printing systems;
  2. offset printing principles, technologies, makeready, printing, and clean-up;
  3. gravure, letterpress, flexographic, screen, and special printing principles and processes;
  4. non-impact and hybrid printing principles and processes;
  5. premakeready and makeready;
  6. printing inks and toners;
  7. imposition of printer's spreads using imposition software; and
  8. folding, cutting, stitching, and other bindery processes.

Student Work Examples from Previous Semesters

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