Services
Book Production
Competitive and high quality production services for the widest range of conventional and novelty bookwork.
Outsourcing Solutions
Outsourcing to Imago allows you to tap into 25 years of knowledge and experience without the associated overheads.
Product Sourcing
A dedicated team to source the right components and materials, project manage and monitor quality and safety.
Training & Consultancy
Imago host a broad range of courses developed specifically for publishing staff, run by industry experts.
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Colour Reproduction
Access to cutting edge pre-press services including high quality digital and CTP wet proofing from two of Asia’s leading repro houses.
Product Development
We work together with you to transform your ideas into reality and offer creative solutions to production challenges.
Freight Management
Global freight services, co-ordinating the timely collection and safe delivery of your goods to any port or warehouse.
Bespoke Training Courses
Training for the Publishing Industry
Imago has been running training courses for over seven years and has built an unrivalled reputation as one of the UK’s leading provider of training to the book publishing industry.
Our trainers are all experts in their respective fields and have the widest possible understanding of the publishing industry. Together with our trainers we can construct bespoke courses to address your company’s specific training requirements in each of our key course areas.
Uptake for our bespoke training courses has been phenomenal with an increasing number of publishing companies recognising the benefits to their business of delivering tailored training to groups of their staff simultaneously.
The main course areas where we can offer bespoke training are:
| Course | Description |
| Book Production | Basic Book Production, Proactive Production, File Problems: Getting CTP Right |
| Colour | Understanding Colour and Colour Correcting, Colour: Improving Digital Images for Print |
| Product Safety | Essential Safety: Childrens Books and Books Plus, Advanced Safety Workshop: Childrens Book and related products, Preparing for the new European Toy Safety Directive |
| InDesign | InDesign for Editors: From QuarkXPress to InDesign CS, InDesign for Production, InDesign for Designers: From QuarkXPress to InDesign CS - 2 day course |
| Paper for Book Production | Paper for Book Production, FSC, PEFC and Ethical Paper Sourcing |
| QuarkXpress | QuarkXpress: Toolkit for Production, Bespoke Quark Courses |
| Photoshop | Photoshop: Advanced Skills, Photoshop: Cut-outs Shadows and Reflections |
| PDFs | Creating PDFs for Book Printing, Checking PDFs in Acrobat Professional |
| Rights | Buying & Selling Coeditions, Licensing Translation Rights |
if we can help with your company’s training needs. Prices for bespoke training are agreed on an individual basis according to your individual requirements. Courses are generally run at your premises.
For details of our programme of Open Courses click here.
To find out more about our Consultancy services click here.
Imago Publishing has adopted the voluntary code of practice for suppliers of publishing training. This code has been designed by the Publishing Skills Group as a self-assessment process, to encourage quality provision amongst training providers. Imago Training has published its response to this code and encourages its clients and associates to view its commitment to service and quality, available on the website by clicking here.
Imago are listed on the
Underoak Training Index
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