Printing a Book with CSS: Boom!

You like microformats? Weï¿ll give you some freakin' microformats. CSS luminaries Hakon Wium Lie and Bert Bos introduce the boom! microformat and show you how to make book the easy way.

Bos, Bert and Hakon Wium Lie. List Apart, A (2005). Design>Web Design>CSS>Printing

Printing Impressions

Printing Impressions magazine provides coverage on industry trends, emerging technologies and the news behind the news in the Graphic Arts industry.

Printing Impressions. Journals>TC>Document Design>Printing

Successfully Merging Litho and Digital  

The merger of offset lithography with digital printing is a highly successful technique that maximizes the benefits of both technologies.

Copresco (1999). Articles>Document Design>Prepress>Printing

Seven Tips for Great Print Style Sheets

CSS doesn’t apply exclusively to the Realm of the Screen. You can also write style sheets that apply to the medium that first spawned them – print. This can be a very useful trick, since people read on the screen very differently than they read print documents. So here are a few tips for creating a print style sheet that will ensure your website is user-friendly, regardless of the medium it ends up in.

Glazebrook, Rob L. CSSnewbie (2008). Articles>Web Design>CSS>Printing

Printing the Web

For some websites the user experience already extends onto paper, like it or not. Ignoring this may result in lower overall user satisfaction. Consider the following factors when designing web pages that will be printed.

Kalbach, James. Boxes and Arrows (2003). Articles>Web Design>CSS>Printing

Ten Pre-Press Tips For Perfect Print Publishing

A lot of designers think CMYK is the way to go when designing for print. We will, of course, always use CMYK-based ink, but this does not mean you have to work with CMYK files. You can work with RGB images to perfectly optimize your print colors.

Kramer, Marco. Smashing (2009). Articles>Document Design>Prepress>Printing

Printing and Prepress Basics

While art and design schools do an impressive job of teaching the importance of form, function, and how to use flashy Photoshop techniques, it's rare that designers have been taught the skills necessary to pass off their projects to printers so that they may not only successfully, but smoothly, produce a designed work. In this article, I'll discuss the basics when it comes to translating your brilliant ideas (and surely hours of your precious time and energy) into successfully printed projects with a printer, making it easier to keep your deadlines and maintain a blissfully happy and healthy relationship with your vendor.

Stanley, Brandi. Tuts Plus (2009). Articles>Document Design>Prepress>Printing