Free download: The IFRA Newspaper-Community.com 2008 web guide
IFRA offers the Ifra Newspaper-Community.com web guide to the supplying industry as free PDF download (6,2 MB in size).
Free download: International Newspaper Color Quality Club book 2008-2010
Free downloadable file. The book contains a brief description of each winning newspaper along with technical data and an illustration of the paper's front page.
Free eBook: The Future of Newspaper Presses and Printing (Future Press Series 2007)
Print remains the most economical and effective method for communicating the complex full-size presentation of a newspaper page with its many and varied information elements. newspaper techniques' editor-analysts have assembled a seven-part series, from the February through August/September 2007 issues of the magazine, examining the technology’s latest developments and future prospects.
Free download: International Newspaper Color Quality Club book 2006-2008
Free downloadable file. The book contains a brief description of each winning newspaper along with technical data and an illustration of the paper's front page.
Digital Newsprint for Roaming Readers©
First major European report on digital newspaper printing
Free for members: Information Graphics in Colour
This book is available in English, German and French.
This second of two IFRA books by Peter Sullivan gives a detailed and practical overview of the benefits, the pitfalls and the proper conditions for an effective use of colour in infographics by newspapers. This 128-page book will be read with benefit not only by artists but by journalists and even by computer specialists.
Free for members: Newspaper Graphics
This book is available in English, German and French.
How can a newspaper obtain the right graphics, at the time they are needed, through the right persons and through the right procedures? In his book, "newspaper graphics," Peter Sullivan discloses it all. Building on his long and unique experience, he covers in great detail and with abundant illustrations the evolution of newspaper graphics.
Free for members: Typography and design for newspapers
This book is only available in French and Spanish. English and German versions are out of print.
Newspaper design is an intricate, often complicated process. Without attention to many typographic and graphic details, the best designed page will look incomplete and imperfect. One of the purposes of this book by Rolf F. Rehe is to demonstrate the elements that contribute to good design and to show how they can best be used.
Free for members: Newspaper Colour Design
This book is available in English, German, French and Spanish.
The use of colour in the newspaper requires design and aesthetic skills. This manual by Mario R. Garcia is about the impact of colour in newspapers around the world. It gives numerous examples of colour combinations that work and do not work in newspapers. Editors, graphic designers, ad layout specialists and technical personnel will have a primary interest in this handbook.
Ifra Newsprint and Newsink Guide
This book is available in English (as PDF only -- see details), German and French.
The basic consumables in newspaper printing are newsprint and newsink. This 530-page guide is intended to serve as an information source for printers, pressroom foremen and technical management, providing up-to-date facts and advice for dealing with these every-day materials. The Ifra Newsprint and Newsink Guide has been compiled and approved by the Ifra Newsprint Committee.
Tone Reproduction
This book is available in English, German and French.This Ifra guide aims to provide an insight into how this elusive factor may be checked and optimised for any set of production conditions and also outline the considerations necessary to gain control in this difficult and complex area. This guide will help out in situations, such as when pictures need to be reproduced as quickly and as effortlessly as possible.
Classification of paper and reel defects
This publication is available in English, German and French.
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