This authorative text has been updated to keep pace with structural and technological changes affecting the printing industry. Highlights include: a new chapter on quick printing, the latest information on estimating desktop publishing projects, updated cost data, plus state-of-the-art equipment. Organized to follow a typical production sequence, this management-oriented text emphasizes cost control, organizational efficiency and production standards. This book should be of interest to students on courses in printing; printing apprentices and professional printing estimators.