Real World Scanning and Halftones: Industrial Strength Production Techniques

by Glenn Fleishman, Stephen F. Roth, Conrad Chavez

This guide provides specific recommendations for setting image resolutions on particular types of scanning devices, walks through procedures for correcting and storing images, and explains how halftones work in different mediums. The third edition addresses scanning for web output and updates screenshots to Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Adobe Photoshop CS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

544 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

I started writing as a child and never stopped. I’ve always been interested in what makes things tick and how to explain that. That led to a career as a technology journalist and how-to article and book author. I’ve written dozens of books over my career in some combination of the two.

In the 2010s, I started publish a series of book that combined printing and type history and technology in a variety of ways. These titles include Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It, a collection of essays and reporting; London Kerning, a look at two magnificent London printing collections and the city’s typographical history; Six Centuries of Type & Printing; and How Comics Were Made, a heavily visual history of the production and reproduction of newspaper comics from the 1890s to the present.

I live in Seattle, Washington, with my family, and drink very little coffee.