GC 200 - Pre-Media Fundamentals

Credit Hours: 3

Learn how to imposition print jobs with multiple images like post cards, menus and multi-page signatures along with prepping images and layouts for various online and print outputs. Hands-on laboratory projects that include digital image capture and the use of an imposition application to create signatures in a variety of styles.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

recognize and construct standard graphic documents in properly formatted color spaces;
produce, modify and convert basic graphic documents into a PDF workflow;
solve imposition calculations for Page Creep, Ganging and Step and Repeat;
modify and Construct Quality control devices and Marks relevant to specific outputs;
classify Imposition Layouts for Books and Flat Sheet Layouts;
prepare proper formatted imposition templates in page layout and imposition program;
construct organized file tree maintaining links and the correct file version for output;
modify Output Device dependent PDF settings to achieve predictable results; and
demonstrate the ability to digitally capture scanned images properly sized and formatted for placement in a page layout document.

Prerequisites: GC-103, GC-150, GC-151, GC-152
Corequisites: none
Concurrent Registration: none
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