With a quick-printer capable of 24-hour turn-around,
camera-ready copy can be completed by Thursday morning, which allows production flexibility and inclusion of the latest information.
The editors are further to be commended on a high standard of editing and production from
camera-ready copy, the book being a model of what can be accomplished in this way.
The document can then be routed via the network to a laser printer that produces either a finished publication or
camera-ready copy for typesetting.
The author apologizes early on, and quite unnecessarily, for the format of the boom which was prepared as
camera-ready copy. The format is in fact unexceptionable, but this is a further example of cheese-paring by publishers, who have obliged the author to solve the often quite formidable problems of typography inseparable from a book of this sort.
This reduction, like the closing of the time gap, results in considerable part from the use for the first time of computer technology in the preparation of the manuscript, which was printed from
camera-ready copy. The reproduction of the traditional format of the BL has been extremely skillful, and the appearance of the volume is excellent.
Besides offering later deadlines, remote entry of classified ads eliminated loss of
camera-ready copy, ads run in the wrong place and high courier costs.
The chapter on "Type and Production" provides a pragmatic overview of the design, printing, and binding processes of
camera-ready copy, including information about type size typeface, leading, letterspacing, wordspacing, copyfitting, offset lithography, and color printing.
Andrew Rothwell, who is also particularly thanked for helping generate the
camera-ready copy for this pleasingly presented book, examines connections between early Surrealism and the Left.
These two volumes are handsomely prepared
camera-ready copy by Between the Lines, Ltd., Jerusalem, containing a very legible Orientalist (Semitological) transcription plus elegant and very readable, albeit small, Hebrew and Arabic scripts.
At two locations it runs a total of seven Autologic APS 5 phototypesetters 24 hours a day in order to supply
camera-ready copy to the 1,500 customers who still receive it that way.