Putting it all together

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Mechanical Preparation, Continued Putting it all together The finished mechanical must withstand considerable handling as it moves from one phase of reproduction to another. Prepare your mechanical on illustration board and cover it with a protective covering of tissue paper or acetate. The larger the mechanical, the heavier the illustration board. If the mechanical has one overlay, tape the overlay to the top of the illustration board. If the mechanical has multiple overlays, register each overlay to the illustration board so that they may be removed and easily replaced by the camera person. Leave ample border all around the image on the mechanical to insert instructions for the keying of separate copy elements. Mark these instructions in nonreproducible blue on white areas and yellow on black areas, such as a black patch. Use initials or numbers to key halftone negatives for insertion. Above all else, keep the mechanical clean; the camera records every stray mark, including marks that are ghostly visible. Figure 1-41 shows a mechanical with a halftone insertion indicated. Figure 1-41.—A layout containing masked-out areas for halftones. 1-54

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