NAA® 1996 Newspaper Operations SuperConference
Pre-press * Press & Materials * Post-press

March 3 - 8, 1996
Doral Ocean Beach Resort
Miami Beach, Florida
Pre-Press Program Overview

SUNDAY, MARCH 3

Pre-press Primer
Participate in a comprehensive review of color scanner technology, output technology (RIPs, OPI, Imagesetters) and proper system calibration techniques. This refresher course is presented by experts in each area.

Pre-press Reception


MONDAY, MARCH 4

Continental Breakfast

The Outer Edge of Technology
Discover the latest tools and technology to enhance newspaper prepress operations, including demonstrations of new operating systems, new pagination software, the latest portable document format, compression technology and software search engines.

Digital Advertising Update and Case Studies
Learn about industry efforts to streamline and clarify the digital advertising process. Hear leading newspapers describe how they managed to handle digital ads more efficiently for their customers and themselves.

Web-Width Reduction Update and Case Studies
Newspapers are keen to reduce their newsprint cost. Examine the impact of web-width reduction on the pre-press area. Talk with the Canadian newspapers, the current pioneers of 50-inch web reductions.

Pre-press Lunch

Full Pagination Options and Case Studies
Listen to case studies from four newspapers that have successfully converted to full-page pagination. Learn what to expect, what to watch out for, how to avoid pitfalls and how to paginate successfully.

Archiving Options and Case Studies
Archiving technology is hot now that more newspapers are converting to digital imaging and pagination. Find out how newspapers are handling archiving from case studies on industry approaches to archiving.

Newspaper Tour


TUESDAY, MARCH 5

Continental Breakfast

Pre-press Supplier Roundtable
The leading suppliers of our industry answer tough questions about important industry trends in pre-press hardware and software. Find out why some vendors continue to fall by the wayside, what technology trends will affect our software and hardware options and who will continue to provide these services.

New Trends in Pre-press Management
Learn from newspapers that have outsourced pre-press functions. Does this approach work? What are the pros and cons? Hear from newspapers that have worked with the new integrators. Does a nonintegrated approach to system integration work?

Pre-press Discussion Group
Join this informal moderated roundtable on current pre-press quality issues. Participate in a free-ranging discussion on topics as varied as adjusting digital ads for optimum reproduction to tips on calibrating monitors. Share ideas with your peers and get their input on solutions.


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