The professionals at DPS Associates offer a personal, hands-on approach that's often lacking at larger production houses … as well as a full range of publishing services and solutions, including:

Project Management

  • Author correspondence/work as author contact
  • Printer liaison
  • Production schedule development
  • Competitive bidding
  • FTP capabilities
  • End-of-project archiving (DVD, CD, Zip, floppy, etc.)

MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS

DPS can design and produce presentation materials in a variety of formats, including transparency masters, transparency acetates, 35mm slides, and electronic files (PowerPoint, etc.).

If you like, we can create illustrations from scratch based on your ideas and input, or we can use your own prepared art.

We can also incorporate video and audio into your presentations for a complete multimedia experience.

Editorial Services

  • Copyediting
  • Proofreading
  • Manuscript preparation (contents, index, glossary, etc.)
  • Indexing
  • ISBN and copyright application
  • PCN and CIP requests
  • Permissions handling
  • Readability analysis

Design/Illustration

  • Cover design
  • Internal layout and design
  • Graphs and charts
  • Illustrations
  • Presentation art (PowerPoint, etc.)

Production Services

  • Page composition/typesetting
  • Keying or scanning manuscript
  • OCR scanning
  • High-resolution color scanning
  • Sample pages, sample film, sample disks
  • Castoffs (page estimates)
  • Checking printer proofs

Output Capabilities

  • Computer to Plate:
    • PDF files for press
    • PDF files for proofing
    • Pagination application files
    • Art application files
    • Postscript files

  • Camera-Ready Copy:
    • 600dpi, and 1200 dpi
    • 8-1/2" x 11" and 11" x 17" paper sizes
    • 1-, 2-, and 4-color printouts

  • Film:
    • Single page
    • Imposed flats
    • 1-, 2-, or 4-color
    • RRED or RREU

  • PowerPoint Presentations

  • eBooks