What is an….
Imprint Page
Your imprint page should include your book's ISBN, CiP entry, copyright
line and the names of your editor, designer and printer. This is also
an appropriate place to include acknowledgments for cover artwork. The
imprint page is usually placed on the back of the title page.
ISBN
An International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique 10-digit number
which ensures that your book can be identified throughout the world.
The allocation of an ISBN in Australia is managed by Thorpe-Bowker.
We can supply the application form, or it can be obtained by contacting
the ISBN Agency:
Barcode
The barcode represents the ISBN in a form which can be read by an electronic
barcode scanner. It is used by publishers, booksellers and libraries
to order, sell and manage book inventory and cataloguing systems. The
barcode should be included on the outside back cover of the book. Southwood
Press can generate a barcode from your ISBN, your cover designer will
need to leave a white box on the back cover for us to insert the barcode.
Can you put the Barcode on my Cover?
Yes. Please allow a white "window" (usually bottom right of the back cover) the size for a standard barcode is 32mm wide x 26mm high. The barcode is usually printed in black ink. Please check with us if you would like to use another colour, as some colours (such as red or yellow), cannot be seen by the barcode scanner. If you are supplying the barcode, it must be in an EPS format (not TIFF).
CiP
The provision of Cataloguing-in-Publication (CiP) data to Australian
publishers is a free service provided by the CiP Unit within the National
Library of Australia. It involves the preparation of a cataloguing entry
for a book before the book is published. This CiP entry, which is derived
from information supplied to the CiP Unit by publishers, appears in
the printed book. CiP entries are listed on the Kinetica database, which
is used extensively by libraries throughout Australia. We can supply
the application form, or it can be obtained by contacting:
Legal Deposit
You should provide copies of your book for legal deposit to the National
Library of Australia and the relevant state library. An information
brochure listing requirements and contact details can be obtained by
contacting:
Copyright
Legal deposit should not be confused with copyright. Under the Copyright
Act 1968 copyright protection is granted automatically in Australia
from the moment of creating a work.
Advice for authors and publishers can be obtained by contacting:
Australian Copyright Council:
245 Chalmers Street
Redfern NSW 2016
Tel: 02 9318 1788 Fax: 02 9698 3536
E-mail: info@copyright.org.au
Internet: http://www.copyright.org.au
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What if Your Book is set in MS Word?
Whilst Word is an excellent word processing program, because it is "printer
dependent" it often comes out differently on any printer other
than yours. It also does not handle photographs well. So if you only
have MS Word you will need to supply it as a PDF created from Adobe
Acrobat Distiller or have your Word file professionally typeset (see
Preparing your book for Printing)
Why does the photograph (or colour) look different - it looked OK on
my screen?
Unless you have a very expensive monitor which has been calibrated to
the output imagesetter, your computer screen cannot reproduce what is
in your file. Similar problems exist with black & white photographs
on screen, and with laser and inkjet printers for both colour and mono.
Remember, with photographs all your screen and printer can do is approximate
what is in your file, this is why your file must be set up correctly.
Do not rely on your screen or printout.
The reason for this is that your screen uses red, green and blue (RGB)
light to create colours. Combining full intensities of all three colours
makes white. This is called additive colour.
To print colour photographs, all lithographic printers use the CMYK
colour model, in which three colours of transparent ink - cyan (C),
magenta (M), and yellow (Y)- are combined along with black (noted as
K instead of B to avoid confusion with blue) in varying amounts to create
colours. CMYK inks filter the white light that reflects back from the
paper and subtract some of the red, green, and blue light from the spectrum.
The colour we see is what's left. This is called subtractive colour.
What is D min/ D max?
D min is the lithographic term for the highlight (lightest) area in
a photograph and D max is the lithographic term for the shadow (darkest)
area in a photograph. These values are best set at the scanning stage,
however they can be adjusted by professional image editing programs.
Adobe Photoshop is the best program for altering these. Photoshop can
also alter the midtones. Highlight, midtone & shadow is sampled
through the Options/Info palette and edited in the Levels or Curves
dialog box.
PPI vs LPI vs DPI
Many computer manuals and books confuse ppi, lpi and dpi. The following
example illustrates the difference between these.
Photographs are scanned in at 300 Dots Per Inch (DPI), held as a file
in Pixels Per Inch (PPI), we then apply a screen ruling of between 133
to 150 Lines Per Inch (LPI) and output through a platesetter at 2400
Dots Per Inch (DPI). Remember that each press and stock combination
has an optimum LPI for correct reproduction of photographs. The LPI
is set at the plate output stage.
Why Shouldn't I use Hairlines?
If lines in a graphic or chart are defined as "hairlines" (or not defined at all), they will probably print out nicely on your
printer, however because an imagesetter images your file at 2400 DPI
or better, your line may be so fine that it will not be visible. You
must always give a line a weight, preferably never finer than 0.5 point.
What is Imposition?
To obtain maximum usage on the printing press from standard paper sizes
we impose (lay out) the pages, usually 8 or 16 pages to view. (see also
Manufacturing your Book – Imposition)
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