Design For Print - Workshop 3

You should discuss the bleed with printer when you discuss stock, spot colours and other stuff like that.

The slug area is used for crop marks, fold marks etc etc. You should talk to the printer about what they want you to include in the slug area.

How to set up a new spot colour swatch.

   

How to set up a tinted swatch.











Setting Up Images

1. Images need to be used at actual size
2. Images should be at 300dpi
3. Images should be CMYK or Greyscale
4. Images should be TIFF or psd files

You can apply colour to greyscale TIFFs in InDesign as if it were a duotone image by selecting the binding box and using the fill colour to fill the white areas. If you select the image re-sizer thing and fill that it applies the colour to the black area.

You can see how your file will look as separations by going on;
Window -> Output -> Separations Preview -> View -> Separations

   

   

You can print your separations by doing the below things.

   

The frequency and angles boxes should be left to be set up by the printer to avoid having a Moire effect, which can occur when dots are overlayed as shown below.

When preparing something for screen printing the frequency should be beween 50 and 65 lpi, the angle of the first positive should be 15 degrees, the second should be 75, then 105 and 155.

Exporting to a PDF

File -> Adobe PDF Presets -> [Press Quality]

or

File -> Package