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BluePencil offers any or all of the following services to ensure the best-quality publications for its clients:

1. Copyediting and proofreading

To ensure:

• correct grammar, spelling and punctuation;
• appropriate level of language for the target audience;
• consistent use of style (including imposition of house style, if required), such as capitals, italics, spellings, and so on; and
• factual accuracy.

2. Typesetting, layout and design

This could also be described as professional-level desktop publishing.

BluePencil offers a complete service, using high-end DTP and graphics software, providing camera-ready (or print-ready) copy for the printer.

3. Print production

BluePencil is able to provide print-ready electronic files to the printer of your choice.

Wide experience in electronic (and hard-copy) print production means BluePencil can liaise with your printer at all stages of the production process, to ensure you receive exactly the final product you desire.

4. Research and writing

David Barrett trained as a print journalist, and has written material for books and dustjackets, promotional and marketing material, press releases, and so on, using clear, correct English that is appropriate to the target audience.

He is the author of Ireland in Colour (Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1998), which was also translated into German and French.