A donation of Baseview pagination software completes an entirely digital prepress editorial system in the School of Printing Management and Sciences.
The six Baseview programs store digital files of news stories from the Associated Press wire. The files are then combined with photos and transferred into a page template, which gets outputted as a film negative and made into a plate for printing. Baseview can store 102 news files at a time, compared with the 20 that could be saved with the previous software.
Combined with other recent software and hardware acquisitions, the Baseview package gives newspaper operations management students all the necessary tools to layout and produce a newspaper. The software is valued at more than $5,000.
