Short- to medium-run books, manuals, education workbooks. Docutech has replaced most of the quick-print shops with inexpensive, good quality and fast duplicating of text material. It is relatively unknown to publishers.
DocuTech can receive electronic files, or scan and convert hard copy, manipulate master pages for imposition and pagination directly into the system. Expensive camera work, negative stripping, plate-making, and bluelines are not part of the process. Output is 600 dpi text and half-tones. Turnaround is fast, and, since the publication can be stored electronically, reprints are equally fast.
Covers are a separate process and can be printed on any stock, in multiple colors and bound wiro, GBC, Plasti-coil, tape, perfect, loose-leaf.
The
docuTech is a greatly-enhanced duplicator manufactured, and usually leased,
by Xerox. It can handle paper sizes up to 14x17, weights up to 110 lb, can mix
up to three stocks within the same document, including tabs, covers and colored
stock. It eliminates labor-intensive collating and requires only a single operator.
It is economical for "press runs" of 250 to 5,000 books of from 48
to 400 single-side or duplex pages with trim sizes of 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 or 8 1/2
x 11.
Most DocuTech print companies will supply their specific Docutech driver for your use in outputting files.
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