Linking Your Jobs To Our Digital Printing Network: October 1999 Overnight Lite

Computer Services...

Linking Your Jobs To Our Digital Printing Network

In our July issue, we featured our production coordinators in the first installment of a series discussing how your jobs move through our plant.
The second stop on our reader's tour is our computer services department. Here, your books and manuals are imaged from computer files or artwork on our digital network that links PC and Macintosh workstations to our UNIX, Novell and NT servers and Docutech and Docucolor publishing systems.
Jessica Pinkous, computer services specialist, color technician Paul Rowe and graphics technician Theresa Gavlin work with all major software applications, including PageMaker, QuarkXPress, Word, FrameMaker and InDesign. Customer files are received via our FTP site, e-mail, computer bulletin board or on removable media such as Zip, Jazz, CD, DVD and MO.

Production manager Chuck Legorreta joins (l. to r.) Jessica Pinkous, Paul Rowe and Theresa Gavlin in the computer services department.

Mix And Match

The computer services staff frequently works with mixed applications and computer platforms. Data files are merged with other electronic files as well as scanned hard copy or artwork. Individual pages, indexes, cover letters and other pieces can be tailored to meet specific needs. Pictures and illustrations may also be incorporated from photos, traditional artwork or laser copies. Index tabs are typeset and inserted at this point. Then, final pages are imposed and PostScript or PDF files are created.

Maintaining The Digital Stream

Documents are RIPed (Raster Image Processed) for seamless electronic printing on our five high-speed Docutechs and Docucolor digital printer. A complete digital stream is maintained in the production process, including printing, collating, index tab imprinting and insertion.
Completed jobs are stored by the computer staff on our RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks). Files to be archived or returned to customers are written to optical disks or CD-R. Jobs can then be rerun exactly as the originals without re-scanning, re-formatting or re-proofing on a print-on-demand basis. This allows you to plan shorter, more frequent and economical production runs and save valuable storage space.

Like A Personal Tour?

Next, the Docutechs. We'll feature that department in a future issue. But, we'll be happy to give you a personally escorted plant tour now. To set a date, just call, fax or send us an e-mail message.

Speaking Of Tours...

Are you coming to Chicago for the Oct. 17-20 Graph Expo '99 at McCormick Place South?
If so, plan to spend some extra time and visit Copies Overnight. We'll give you the grand tour of our new 14,000 sq. ft. digital printing plant.

FAQ: Where Can I Get The Euro?

Q. You talked about the new euro symbol in the September issue of Lite. Do you know where I can get the font?
A. For details about the availability of the euro font, visit the appropriate websites:

developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1140.html

www.microsoft.com/typography/faq/faq12.htm

Overnight Lite Online

Did you know that Overnight Lite has a world wide web version? You can surf for back issues in both HTML and PDF formats...even find jokes that didn't make our print version (yuck!).
If you missed the September issue, you can check out our online version.

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