Proof Reading
Quality is central to everything we do at
Thuriam. By emphasizing quality in all its dimensions, the
quality of our products, our services, and our schedules, as
well as the quality of our relationships with each other and
with our customers, we keep our employees and customers happy,
our work efficient, and our schedules reliable.
Eliminating errors and inconsistencies in
each project reduces the confusion, correction, and rechecking
that add cost, cause delays and upset customers. We attribute
the great loyalty we enjoy from the publishers we serve more
to our quality orientation than to any other single factor.
Because we pride ourselves on unexcelled
quality we take the sole responsibility for the accuracy of
our work, both for the keystrokes we supply and for the coding
and formatting needed to produce typographical pages. In
addition, publishers utilizing our full service capabilities
often have us provide the full proofreading additionally in
pages that they would otherwise have their own staff do.
Members of the thuriam proofreading staff,
both in-house and freelance, have each passed a rigorous test
and are well versed in the fine points of proofreading,
typography and page makeup. They are able to work quickly and
efficiently with a wide variety of matter and format, such as
mathematics, scientific text and medical and technical
terminology, and they communicate effectively with thuriam
Project Leaders and typesetting staff so that quality
standards are maintained with schedules.
Our dedicated and detail-oriented
proofreading department carefully checks every project typeset
at Impressions. Page proofs for each project are checked for
correct formatting, conforming to customer guidelines and
design specifications, and compliance with the highest
standards of excellence in quality in typography and page
makeup.
When a project involves edits insertion into
the author's original files, each insertion is proofread
against the manuscript to make sure that it is accurate and
correctly formatted.
Proofreaders also check to make sure for
corrections to first and second pass page proofs are accurate
and consistent with the project specifications. They are alert
to inconsistencies and infelicities and, when appropriate,
queries to be passed on to the publisher or author.
When full proofreading is required for a
project, we work with an outstanding group of local freelance
proofreaders, each of whom has been screened and tested. We
work hard to maintain an excellent working relationship with
our freelancers, they know exactly what's expected of them and
we know we can rely on them for accuracy, thoroughness, and
timeliness.
For each proofreading assignment, the Project
Leader provides careful instructions and guidelines, so that
the proofreader knows the specific requirements and special
issues for each job. Proofreaders work with the copyedited
style sheet and check for consistency of style as well as
conformity to the manuscript and design specifications of the
client. When proofreading is complete, the Project Leader
reviews the pages to ensure that all appropriate changes and
queries are resolved as needed.
When schedules allow, pages are proofread
before they're delivered so that the proofs, the author
reviews are as clean and error-free. When schedules are tight,
pages are proofread at the same time the author and publisher
are reviewing them. The Project Leader then combines the
proofreader's changes with those of the publisher and author
and works with the publisher and author to resolve any queries
the proofreader has raised.
The determined efforts of our sharp-eyed
proofreaders help us to enable produce consistently clean page
proofs that frequently inspire praise from grateful publishers
and authors and that help keep our operation efficient and
reliable as well.
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