In order to know the printing technology in the Academic Publishing and Press, we have to give a brief description for the following departments or sections:

Computer Section:

This is considered an important section since it makes all the necessary corrections and modifications made by editors, designers, authors and page-proof readers. Due to the increasing development in office publishing and typesetting, this section has been enhanced and it has become to use the electronic publishing at its utmost, in addition to providing the section with high-skilled personnel in typesetting and following the international academic publishing standards.

The Design unit:

Montage Section:

This is also an important section since it has most of the publishing chores such as photocopying and montaging all publications. It has the following unit:

It is a complete unit with modern PCs in which it has been provided with a film recording machine to perform all necessary chores such as measuring colors, storing them and inserting them in the text, in addition to inserting figures. This process will provide a film ready to be photocopied on offset boards (plates). All computers have been connected to this film recording machine, and with that all the works are done through the computer instead of the old manual style.

Printing Section:

It is one of the sections that handle the printing chores for all the university publications. It is divided into three units:

Offset unit:

GTO unit:

This unit prints covers, envelops and the necessary forms for the university hospitals.

Typo unit:

This unit provides the necessary forms for the university such as cards and envelops, in addition to breaking files and preparing them automatically.

This section comes in when the printing works are done. It has three units:

Folding unit:

This unit does the folding of papers according to the sizes of the books.

There are two types of binding in this unit to the size of the publication. If the publication has a large number of pages, the binding is done automatically by placing the book/publication on stations/machines for collecting and installing covers. On the other hand, if the publication is small, the binding is done manually by collecting, gluing and stapling these small publications.

Cutting unit:

This unit does the final touches on the publication. It has many high-quality automatic scissors that are set according to the desired sizes for the publications. This unit has well-trained personnel to operate the cutting works for various publications.

Digital Printing Section:

This section has machines connected to computers that give commands for operating and photocopying. It also has modern color photocopying machines which print and photocopy scientific papers, guidebooks, brochures and reports, and then bind and staple them automatically. This section has trained personnel in using computers for different printing processes.

Quality and Production Monitoring Section:

This is one of the important and recently established sections that guarantees the quality of the publications that released by the university. This section reviews and checks the publications during the printing process. It also checks the order of the page numbers during the printing in order to match the table of contents of the book/publication, in addition to checking the publication after being printed to find any technical errors that may occur.

Maintenance Section (Workshop):

This section performs the periodic and immediate maintenance for printing machines and such, in addition to servicing the personal computers in the administration.

Electronic Publishing Department:

This department is still under construction. It will install a complete network that links all the PCs in the administration, in addition to providing machines that burn CDs (Compact Discs) for the released publications and labeling them automatically, and then putting these CDs in jackets that are placed in the back cover of the publication.

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