OPEN PREPRESS INTERFACE. A system where a high-resolution image is scanned and placed on a SERVER computer, which automatically creates a low-resolution STAMP of that image. This stamp can be placed in a PAGE LAYOUT application easily and quickly. When the page is ready for final output, it is printed through a SPOOLER on the same server computer, and the server computer automatically switches the stamp with the high-resolution image.
Open prepress interface. A process used on desktop prepress systems where high resolution scans are made and specially linked low resolution images are sent to the designer for placement in the layout. The linked low-res images are automatically swapped with the high-res images when the file is ripped. (Similar to apr.)
Open Pre-press Interface. A graphics management system whereby a high-resolution scanned image is placed on a server and a low-resolution version is supplied to the designers for use in visual page layout only. When it is time to run the finished job for print - or high-resolution proof - the job can be output at a high resolution and the OPI files will be picked up and sent to the imagesetter. This is especially useful because it saves time in the design studio, as it is not necessary to spend time scanning low-resolution positionals. And it also ensures that, when the final high-resolution scan is output, it will be positioned and cropped exactly as the designer intended - no need for rescanning or manual placement.
Open Prepress Interface. A viewing file which provides a link between the image placed in a page layout program and the high resolution separation needed by the imagesetter. It is automatically swapped out when the file is prepped for output.
open prepress interface. A prepress standard developed by Aldus (now part of Adobe) and other prepress vendors for facilitating data exchange between desktop publishing and prepress systems.
See Oracle Program Interface (OPI).
Oracle Program Interface. A networking layer responsible for responding to each of the possible messages sent by OCI. For example, an OCI request to fetch 25 rows would have an OPI response to return the 25 rows once they have been fetched.
An acronym for Open Prepress Interface, a communication connection developed by Aldus Corporation that facilitates links between CEPS and desktop publishing systems. Using OPI, view files or high resolution scans can be transferred to desktop publishing systems and placed in page layout software. When the page file is sent back to the CEPS for processing and output, the high resolution image data is automatically swapped for the view file. OPI is frequently used by systems that seek to maintain high- resolution image data separate from page layout files. OPI is often compared to DCS.
A process in which low resolution files are replaced automatically by high resolution files at pre-press stage.
An acronym that stands for Open Prepress Interface. An OPI based workflow allows for individual documents to contain low resolution placement images with reference calls to the high resolution images when output to high resolution devices. The result is less transported data. to top
Open Prepress Interface. Also known as image-swapping technology, this is the process that allows low resolution images inserted into a page layout program to be swapped with the high resolution version for film or platesetting.
Open Prepress Interface. Hardware and software that link desktop publishing systems with color electronic prepress systems which use an extension to PostScript that automatically replaces low-resolution placeholder images with their high-resolution counterparts.
PostScript operations that allows for the use of low-resolution images as place holders during design and setup of a printing job, that inserts the actual high-resolution images when the job goes to output.
Open Prepress Interface. A descriptive language developed by Aldus and prepress vendors to provide a standardized link between desktop publishing and prepress systems. An OPI file is actually a viewing file which provides a link between the image placed in a page layout and the high resolution separation. It is automatically swapped out when the file is prepped for output.
Protocol developed jointly by Aldus and Linotype-Hell for replacing low-resolution images (image references in layouts) with their original high-resolution data. Now used mainly in pure PostScript systems.
Also known as image-swapping technology, this is the process that allows low-resolution copies of images inserted into a page-layout program for some prepress tasks, and then swapped with the high-resolution versions for output.
