Design and Production of an Editorial Project
A course by John Naranjo , Designer and editor
Joined February 2015
About the video: Print
Overview
“Offset printing, or direct printing, is the most widespread industrial printing technique. It involves a battery of rollers that, pressing ink and paper, transfer an image to a rubber blanket and, from there, to the sheets that will make up your book. It sounds complicated, but it's easier than you imagine. In this lesson we will see the different types of printing and which one is the most convenient for your book.”
In this video lesson John Naranjo addresses the topic: Print, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design and Production of an Editorial Project. Learn the creation process for a children’s or young people’s book from start to finish.
Partial transcription of the video
“After seeing the editorial production, we now go to see the printing of the book. Printing has developed a lot, now there are digital printing systems for mass books, for books circulating in the market. It remains the main printing system the "offset" system. Offset printing is an indirect print. Here in the diagram you see these horizontal bars, is the paper, this is the paper feed and there is a rejection system between the water and the oil , between water and ink. Each of these towers is one of the inks, the most popular printing is printing in cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The CMYK...”
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Course summary for: Design and Production of an Editorial Project
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Category
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Areas
Design Management, Editorial Design, Traditional illustration

John Naranjo
A course by John Naranjo
John Naranjo has been involved in the publishing world for more than 25 years in all its dimensions, from the printing workshop to the acquisition and sale of international rights. Graduated in Graphic Design at the National University of Colombia, John began his career as a desktop editor at the magazine El Malpensante in Bogotá (Colombia) and then made the leap to creative editor at the El Tiempo Publishing House, where he complemented his design knowledge with legal and financial aspects of large publishing projects.
In 2010 he founded, together with his wife Carolina Rey, Rey Naranjo publishing house, where they have produced more than 70 titles of children's literature, youth, comics, fiction and non-fiction, having received awards in Europe and Latin America.
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