http://www.prepressure.com Prepress, PDF, PostScript, Fonts and stuff... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:12:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.prepressure.com/library/prepress-history/1996#comment-27509 tim ungrodt Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:41:48 +0000 http://www.prepressure.com/library/prepress-history/1996#comment-27509 Scitex ... ah, the good old days. CT stood for "con-tone" which was short for continuous tone or pixel-based art at 304.6 dpi up to 16-bit. Which could really mess you up if you spec'd re-sizing with 300 dpi instead. LW stood for a Line-Work file which was a much higher resolution but only 8-bit (255 levels). These files were worked independently and then combined at the end with the help of a "Page-Works" file which kept the two files in the proper coordinates. Now I was a Mac guy at the time but one should always "know thy enemy." Scitex … ah, the good old days. CT stood for “con-tone” which was short for continuous tone or pixel-based art at 304.6 dpi up to 16-bit. Which could really mess you up if you spec’d re-sizing with 300 dpi instead. LW stood for a Line-Work file which was a much higher resolution but only 8-bit (255 levels). These files were worked independently and then combined at the end with the help of a “Page-Works” file which kept the two files in the proper coordinates. Now I was a Mac guy at the time but one should always “know thy enemy.”

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