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FEATURE Printing ABBEY BANNER: From Ideas to the Issue Established in 1966 in St. Cloud, Minnesota, by Mike Palmer and succeeded by his son Steve as president in 1987, Palmer Printing is the company that puts each issue of ABBEY BANNER on the paper that you now hold in hand. This tour of the production process moves the magazine from the original disk containing the layout of articles and photos through the massive and sophisticated printing machinery to the final trimmed, folded and stapled copies ready for distribution. When the articles for ABBEY BANNER have been written, edited, proofread and formatted and the disk delivered to Palmer Printing, the Prepress Department performs a preliminary check to make sure the original magazine file is correct. Photographs are checked to assure they are crisp, properly sized and color corrected. Then the team arranges the pages into press sheet forms. page 6 Abbey Banner Spring 2009 by Heidi Everett; photos by Steve Palmer An inside look at Palmer Printing and its production process A 16-page signature of press sheets A press sheet measures 28” x 40” with each sheet holding sixteen different pages of the magazine, eight pages Steve Palmer, owner and president of Palmer Printing on the front of the sheet and eight pages on the back. This sheet of sixteen pages is called a signature. Thus the 32-page ABBEY BANNER has two such signatures. Using integrated software, the Prepress team codes the files to run on the press. As Steve Palmer explains, “Our Prepress technicians protect the integrity of the magazine’s file with this amazing system. When they are done, this file information goes from the brains of their Macintosh computers to the brain of the press. The technical language is spoken and understood from one machine to the other so the press knows precisely how much ink to put on each press sheet without intervention of a press operator. This shared information between Prepress and the press room allows for greater quality and efficiency in the production process.”
Before the actual printing begins a sample proof of the issue is reviewed and approved by ABBEY BANNER editor Father Daniel who makes sure that skin tones are accurate, glares are removed and images are true to life. Final page-proofing by Father Daniel, editor, and Gwen Spengler, Palmer Printing sales reprentative The CMYK color separations This final check ensures that copy and color are correct and represent what the printed product will look like before it is actually printed. With Daniel’s final approval, the files are digitally sent to the plate imaging machine. Each issue of ABBEY BANNER is alive with color from the calming hues of the Collegeville lakes and forest to the rich details of the stained glass window of the abbey church. The colors are made from combinations of only four colors identified as C (cyan or blue), M (magenta, a deep purplish red),Y (yellow) and K (black). Each of these colors has its own re- —K —C —M FEATURE cyclable aluminum plate on the press that prints that color on the press in tiny dots too small for the eye Magnified dots on the to detect. The press sheet dots appear as a continuous tone even though they are not. Looking at a printed page with a magnifying glass will show the way the combined dots create the color images. The electronic file information from Prepress is then sent to a machine that interprets the information, separates the four colors and images four aluminum plates for each side of the press sheet. When these plates are put on —Y —Composite Abbey Banner Spring 2009 page 7
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