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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:

ISBN Agency Australia, C3 85 Turner Street, Port Melbourne VIC 3207
Tel (03) 8645-0385, Fax (03) 8645-0395
E-mail: isbn.agency@thorpe.com.au Web site: www.thorpe.com.au

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:

National Library of Australia
Canberra ACT 2600.
Tel: 02 6262 1458 Fax: 02 6273 4492
Internet: http://www.nla.gov.au/services/CIP.html

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:

Legal Deposit Unit
National Library of Australia
Canberra ACT 2600.
Tel: 02 6262 1312 Fax: 02 6273 4322
Internet: http://www.nla.gov.au/services/ldeposit.html

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

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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