Quantum DLT 2000 Handbook page 116

Digital Publishing
The publishing industry is going digital as fast as it can. Digital
presses, digital printing plate production, digital proofing, digital
files, digital images...digital everything! Digital publishing reduces
preparation time, saves on labor, reduces inventories, and, in the
case of the Web and CD-ROM, can even eliminate paper altogether.
DLTtape systems are ideal for digital publishing applications.
Companies involved in digital pre-press (the preparation stage
prior to printing) typically require huge amounts of storage capac-
ity. Digital pre-press often involves both a graphics service bureau
and a printer. Many large printers perform all digital pre-press
functions, including final preparation of desktop publishing files,
color artwork scans, color correction, film output, color proofing
and printing plate production. Each step in the pre-press process
requires files to be stored and retrieved on numerous occasions.
Once a job is printed, the printer or service bureau typically stores
the job in its archives for a specified period. These archived files
are kept in anticipation of future reprints and as a service for cus-
tomers. A single file for a mid-size color printing project may
occupy many gigabytes of storage space. A large printer may have
thousands of projects in its archives.
DLTtape cartridges are also used by printers, service bureaus and pub-
lishers to ship projects that are ready for production. Desktop publish-
ing files for an annual report, for instance, can be prepared by a graph-
ics design firm and shipped to a printer for final preparation and color
proofing. The files are typically offloaded to the printer's computer
workstation for color corrections and any other final adjustments or
changes. DLTtape systems allow the printer's pre-press experts to work
on several jobs at once, shuttling the hottest jobs on and off the work-
station's hard disk as needed. Fast data transfer speeds make the
DLTtape system ideal for this type of near on-line application.
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VERTICAL MARKET APPLICATIONS