Digital Prepress & Typesetting Services

Prepress is used to describe the process a document must go through before it can be printed. Different steps are involved in this process like proofreading, editing, layout, scanning, color separation and other graphical related activities. Typesetting involves the presentation of textual material in graphic form. Lister has a team of professional who takes care of different steps involved in digital prepress and typesetting services.

Our team of professional paginators, proof readers and quality control personnel ensure error free project delivery. We work closely with the publisher, author and associate to take complete accountability of the project from the manuscript stage to the final production stage.

Input can be sent to us in any format including Word file, ASCII file, coded ASCII file, PDF, Tiff, or hardcopy (scanned/typed).

Lister's digital prepress and typesetting services include processing books in the following categories:

• Books: Scientific, technical, medical, academic, novel and fiction
• Journals: Scientific, technical, medical, educational, humanities and social science
• Special volumes: Encyclopedia, dictionary, catalogue, directory etc

We use multiple platforms for composition depending on the complexity and dynamics of the project. Our team has the expertise to handle any complex artwork task such as digital illustration, charts, conversion, graph, map, redraws and chemical structure. We have the expertise to operate on the following pagination software:

• QuarkXpress
• InDesign
• 3B2
• Framemaker
• Tex / Latex
• Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator

QuarkXpress - This software is used for typesetting straightforward text as well as heavily designed and illustrated multi-colour text involving:

• Plain fiction titles
• Columnar text jobs with two or more columns involving significant design work
• Academic title / school textbook
• Graphic intensive book
• Book / journal with simple and medium complex math

3B2 - This tool is used for a project that is processed with XML as the input source. The scripting language is built within the system and can also be automated to a great extent using HTML, Perl and so on.

Framemaker - Academic titles, non-math text pagination for both plain texts as well as a fully structured workflow is processed using this software

Tex / Latex - We use this tool for handling text that contain complex mathematical equations

Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator - We use these tools as part of our art creation and scanning service for processing image to complement your book design and textual content

Our project management team has in depth knowledge of the typesetting and electronic publishing industry with excellent communication and coordination skills.

We can manage varied projects including books and journals and cover all aspects of production such as initial check, composition, artwork, proofreading, quality check, indexing etc.

Our project management process includes:

• Manage and coordinate the project starting from receipt of notes from the publisher to dispatch of final files
• Project analysis and workflow development
• Share the planned schedule with the publisher to meet the deadline as indicated
• Liaison with the core team involved in the project including authors, editors, publishers and associates
• Handle queries related to the project
• Keep track of manuscript and page proof
• Follow-up and schedule delivery

Lister has a team of professionals who understand the customer requirement and they work closely with customer on every phase of the prepress and typesetting process. Lister's effective project management and prepress process will really help the customer to achieve their business goal. Our typesetting services are very cost effective with no compromise on quality. We offer a Totally Risk Free Guarantee.