Current and Future Directions of Digital Prepress.

The presentation provides a review of the current status of laser platemaking for newspaper and commercial printing. It discusses the technical merits of the various product concepts. It discusses how laser platemaking leads into laser typesetting systems, their current use, and future development into graphics. A review of electronic color picture processing includes comparison of current performance and likely developments for the future. Included is a discussion of text processing, proofing, and direct platemaking.