| Reference and Link | Page |
| Glossary of Prepress Terms, courtesy of Sappi North America | — |
| Design Resources’ Best Design Sites list, for inspiration and instruction. | — |
| AIGA’s invaluable Resources Page for graphic designers. | — |
| Pure Colours Digital’s white paper, History of Pre-press, including a long list of links to articles on prepress-related topics. | 82 |
| Prepressure’s article, The history of prepress, includes a timeline of significant events. (A companion picture guide is also available. | 83 |
| The PrintWiki article on Prepress is extremely text-heavy but includes full descriptions (and links to related topics) for most prepress concepts. | 84 |
| Prepressure’s article on Imposition includes a full description of the process, with illustrations. | 84 |
| Another helpful article is PrintNinja’s Imposition and Pagination page. | 84 |
| If the art/science of folding paper is your passion, then there is no better resource than Foldfactory.com. (Videos from this source will soon be added to this book’s learning portal.) | 84 |
| The Wikipedia article on Desktop publishing provides a good overview and history of the phenomenon. (A list of desktop publishing software applications is also available.) | 85 |
| The Ghent Workgroup is a primary resource for the practical application of PDF and PDF/X in printed graphic communication. | 88 |
| The Wikipedia article on PDF/X includes definitions and links to the many different ISO variants of the file format. | 88 |
| The Wikipedia article on Pre-flight (printing) includes historical background and a list of common problems encountered in the preflight process. | 89 |
| This Medium article, Pre-Flight Checklist for Printing, is one of many helpful overviews of the preflight process. | 93 |
| Jennifer Matt’s 2016 WhatTheyThink article, Print Production Workflow Automation provides a thoughtful overview of the trend towards automation. | 95 |
| Heidi Tolliver-Walker’s 2017 Printing Impressions article, Reasons Why Printing Companies Should Automate Their Production Workflows provides additional insight, including a 5-step action item list. | 96 |