Full page break
Full-page break in the broader sense describes the process in which individual components (texts, images, graphics, finished advertisements, etc.) are combined to form individual or several complete pages of newspapers, magazines, books or other printed matter.
development
The development of this process can be roughly divided into the following phases:
- The assembly of film or paper parts that reproduced the image and text components that are later to be reproduced in print (production of the printing form mostly for offset printing ), referred to as film or paper assembly (from around 1950 to 1990, in smaller print shops to this day )
- the electronic full pagination , until phototypesetting (up to 1990), since 1985 in desktop publishing .
As the annual data show, there is a parallelism in the use of the different technologies. At the beginning of its technical development, phototypesetting was a preliminary stage for film assembly and the production of plastic clichés was, in turn, a preliminary stage for the high pressure associated with mettage . This depended on the size and investment capacity of the individual company as well as the prepress staff who had to be familiarized with the new technologies .
Today, full-page make-up takes place almost exclusively using desktop publishing, and in large printing companies and publishing houses also using editorial systems . What is to be emphasized is the purely digital handling of the page components on the screen and the transfer of both the initial products (text, image and graphic data) and the end product (designed page) by means of remote data transmission for printing.
The management and compatibility of designed and different data formats, their checking and automatic conversion for use for different output media such as print, Internet and mobile telephony are becoming increasingly important.