Printing in DTP

Printing is important to desktop publishing. Inkjet and Laser are most common types of printer used in desktop publishing.

The various method used are

1.       Flexography, used for printing on plastic, foil, acetate film, brown paper and other similar material.

2.       Grave Printing, used for labels and packages. Can also be used to printing magazines, greeting card etc.

3.       Engraving, used for wedding invitations and sometimes business cards and letter effects with raised effect.

4.       Theromography, similar to engraving but less expensive.

5.       Letterpress is the oldest form in which printing ink is applied to raise portion of metal which is then pressed on paper.

6.       Screen-printing, used for products such as CDs, posters, signs etc.

What is Desktop Publishing?

Desktop publishing refers to designing and printing reports, brochures, letters , books and manual etc. It combine page elements such as text, art, photo for creating attractive looking documents that look like they came of a printer’s press.

FEATURES OF DTP

1.       Easy User Interface

2.       Defining and Applying Tags

3.       Using figures , pictures and clipart

4.       Automatic Page and Figure Numbering

5.       Caption for figures

6.       Header, Footer, Footnotes and Endnotes

7.       Automatic Table of contents and Index based on entries made in the text files

8.       Combining several files in a publication

COMMON DTP PROGRAMS

1.       PageMaker for DOS and Windows

2.       Photoshop

3.       Corel Draw

4.       Microsoft Publisher