Pre-media in printing is anything that happens to a piece of artwork to take it from its original state when completed by the creator to a form that is ready for public consumption. This can range from colour correcting a photograph to post production and colour management to preparing a PDF for printing. This includes various pre-press technologies and systems. Because pre-press is a specific type of pre-media, pre-press activities are considered a pre-media process. This course introduces students to graphic communications manufacturing processes with emphasis on the variety of pre-media technologies available, and their application. Subject matter includes design, image processing, copy preparation, pre-media, proofing, materials, colorimetric science and colour management. The second part of the course focuses on pre-press in particular which includes workflow systems or anything which starts with a PDF and ends up with non-impact printing or impact printing. Pre Press comprises CtP systems (Computer to Plate) and bespoke work flow systems for digital printing presses. The last part deals with the output channel WWW. It introduces web technologies and expecially HTML, CSS and JavaScript.