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The Impact Of Desktop Publishing On The Time And Cost Required To Complete A Printing Publication, Ademola M. Olokun May 1990

The Impact Of Desktop Publishing On The Time And Cost Required To Complete A Printing Publication, Ademola M. Olokun

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The real capability of Desktop Publishing (DTP) is the ability it gives the user to quickly design an entire document, complete with type and graphics, see it accurately on the screen, proof it on a laser printer, then typeset the entire page ready for printing, the same computer file, at a fraction of the time and cost required before. This study was carried out to determine the impact of desktop publishing on the printing industry in the state of Kansas. Specifically, it examined the turnaround time and cost desktop publishing had related to traditional pre-press printing methods. A mailed survey …