Welcome to ¡DISCOVER! GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS

¡DISCOVER! CATEGORIES

• Printing History [8]
• Graphic Design and Typography [8]
• Printing Processes [29]
• Printing Management [8]
• Prepress Technology [24]
• Printing Green [2]
• Printing Process Control (Quality Control) [29]
• Presswork [29]
• Color and Color Reproduction [20]
• Teaching Graphic Communications [10]
• Printing Materials [11]
• Multimedia Tutorials & Articles [13]
• Careers in Printing and Publishing [3]
• Graphic Communications Associations and Organizations [12]

FEATURED ARTICLES

The Body Graphic

When I was being taught how to run a web press, in the not so far distant past, I quickly learned how to play the insidious "blame game." Chances are you also learned to play it and know the rules... Discover >

George Ryan, President of the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, predicted that digital printing technologies will produce 35% of all printing by 2006... Discover >

Prepress departments in printing companies are, for numerous reasons, downsizing. As a result, there are fewer people on hand to correct errors in jobs presented to the printing company by graphic designers.... Discover >

Lithography works on a simple principle that ink and water don't mix. The term "Offset" refers to the process of transferring the image to an intermediate medium before it is transferred to paper.... Discover >

In this site, you'll find articles, photographs, illustrations, presentations, movies, and links to help you better understand the multifaceted and ever-changing world of graphic communications, printing, and publishing.

Whether you're interested in the best way to approach a press check, how a printing process works, how to improve color reproduction, or how to teach graphc communications concepts, you'll find relevant information...just a click away. Explore...learn...discover?

Many of these pages have been written by University of Houston faculty or by graduating seviors as part of their senior project course. Other pages have been gleaned from relevant publications or provided by faculty members at other colleges and universities. Industry partners (manufacturers and vendors) have provided others. Finally, several links point to websites or pages created by other organizations.

If you find a link that is broken, please email jwaite@uh.edu. If you find any page or content on this site is inacurate or violates copyright law, please contact jwaite@uh.edu and the content will be repaired or removed.