The buttons across the top
of the page are for standard information on every page. As well as help
the other buttons include the following:-
Contacts
Site Map
Legal
Links
Bottom
The buttons on the left side
of the screen cover the main sections or chapters of this presentation.
This presentation has been
designed so that it can be used as the following:-
CD ROM multimedia presentation
A loose leaf book
A web site
It has also been designed
so that IBM InfoColor customers can re-purpose the presentation for their
own use. To that end, the high resolution and vector images are included
on this CD.
There is also a "blank" version
of this presentation, which users can create their own version of this
presentation by simply creating a bit map of their logo, without the need
to know anything about HTML programming.
We hope to be adding sections
to this presentation as new developments arise. These will be available
for down load from the IBM Printing Systems (UK) web site.
Click on the following choices
to copy the complete text of the presentation to your hard disk.
Presentation
in Lotus Word 97
Navigation buttons in Adobe
Illustrator 5
Page Banners in Adobe Illustrator
5
IBM InfoColor 70 graphics
in Adobe Illustrator 5
General vector illustrations
in Adobe Illustrator 5
Quark XPress 3.32 files for
the printed book
It is recommended that Apple
Macintosh users select the files in Adobe Illustrator 5, these will work
on both platforms as will the Quark XPress files.
To add your own logo to the
presentation, first import your logo into Adobe Photoshop, and use a 20%
black (gray) background.
Click on "Image", then select
"Image size" and select a bit map size of
Next copy the files from
the cd in the folder called "Userbook" onto a directory on your hard disk.
Now copy the logo.gif file you have created into this directory.
Run the file default.html in your web browser and you should see that the
original IBM logo has been replaced with your companies logo.
The fonts used in the IBM
version of the presentation are IBM Bodini and IBM Helvetica Black and
IBM Helvetica Light.
The font used in the Userbook
version is Symbol Black.
The pages were built using
HTML Frames. To edit the page content look for the relevant file body_XXXX.html,
where XXXX is the page name. The pages can be edited using Netscape Composer
or a similar package.
To build any additional titles
use a 20% gray box of 283 x 21 pixels. Add the text in Symbol Black. Then
increase the size of the image using Photoshop
To create a web site using
this presentation, send all the files from the Userbook folder plus your
logo.gif file to your service provider. The service provider needs to know
that the index page is called default.html and that you are using long
filenames.
For more detailed technical
explanations on the coding e-mail
us, quoting IBM Printing Systems presentation CD in the subject field.
This gives contact details
for your print supplier and contact details for key staff at IBM Printing
Systems and partner companies.
The site map gives an overview
of all the pages contained on this CD/Web site. Simply click on a page
that interests you and you will automatically display the chosen page.
This is useful if, after you have taken a tour around the CD/Web Site and
wish to quickly re-visit a page.
This page covers all references
to trademarks and copyright for this CD/Web site.
This page includes hyper
links to many pages of interest on the World Wide Web which deal with digital
printing issues.
This button automatically
moves you to the bottom of the viewed page.
This section covers a short
history of printing, and an introduction to current printing technologies.
It also explains some of the current technological issues.
This section introduces
the unique benefits of digital printing and introduces new visitors to
variable data printing. Rather than talking from a technological standpoint
it covers the subject with a view to explaining how marketeers can use
digital printing to develop revolutionary new sales tools.
This section covers the
key benefits and differences to traditional printing in more detail, with
sections on short run printing, variable data printing, data mining and
the ability of digital presses to print a wider range of colours than traditional
printing.
This section deals with
how a modern digital press works, in this case the IBM InfoColor 70. For
those who like lots of technical detail, there are also more technical
descriptions of the technology.
This section is for designers
and specificiers who wish to learn about using this new technology to its
best.
Presentation
in Microsoft Word 6/95
For those with HTML programming
experience click on the following files to copy the original vector graphics
used in building the navigation buttons of this presentation:-<
Navigation buttons in Corel
Xara 2
Page Banners in Corel Xara
2
IBM InfoColor 70 graphics
in Corel Xara 2
General vector illustrations
in Corel Xara 2
Vector graphics for the
book in Adobe Illustrator 5
Vector graphics for the
book in Corel Xara 2
The MS Word text can be
easily imported into Quark and many other packages.
101 x 69 pixels. Allow for
some space around the logo. When you are happy with the result, choose
"export" from under the "file" menu, then choose GIF 89a, click ok,
save the result as logo.gif.
"Image" then "canvas size"
to 288 and 26 pixels you should do expand the size from the top right direction,
giving a white border of 5 pixels at the bottom and the left hand side
of the title. Next use gaussian blur to add a 5 pixel drop shadow.
