Design Practice: OUGD504 Design for print: Creative suite- Indesign workshop

OUGD504
DESIGN FOR PRINT
INDESIGN WORKSHOP
Working with column and margin guides are useful to create grids in order to make the book cohesive, however they do not essential and dont define what will and wont print.

Bleed: Adds fine (hairline) rules that define the amount of extra area to image outside the defined page size.

Slug: Area is usually larger then the bleed are and is for all the things that are printed but not part of the design, such as printers marks, crop marks registration marks.

Printer’s marks

A. Crop marks B. Registration mark C. Page information D. Color bars E. Bleed marks F. Slug area

When working in ingesign we have graphic frames and text frames, this creates vector shapes and works in exactly the same way as illustrator. There is a pen tool which also works exactly the same as indesign.

Using the swatch pallet allows consistencey in using colour througout the pages of my publication.

Each swatch is labeled by its ink mixture of CMYK. The grey shaded square indicates that it is a global swatch, all of the swatches shown in the indesign default menu are global.

Global swatches mean that you can change all of the items that are that colour.

Some print jobs will only allow a limited amount of colour. Using tint swatches mean that you are still using the same hue and colour value, but creating a range of different tints and hues.

Selecting spot colours from the drop down menu, you can find specific spot colours easily by using a reference book and typing in the code. This is useful when dealing with clients and printers.

PREPARING IMAGES ON PHOTOSHOP:

RESOLUTION- 300 dpi

IMAGE SIZE- Make the image actual size

PROCESSING- If you are working with large file sizes Indesign has to do more processing.

CMYK OR SPOT COLOUR- Make sure RGB colours are with in the colour gammer.
FORMAT- .tiff or .psd, If working with transparency use .psd

PREPARING IMAGES ON ILLUSTRATOR:
CMYK OR SPOT
FORMAT: .ai
COPY AND PASTE
When using illustrator you don't have to consider resolution or image size as illustrator works with vectors that are infinitely sizeable.

Indesign and illustrator can separate the image above in to different inks.

When clicking on one of the ink colours you get a grey scale representation of what the ink will print. They look like colour channels. They also represent what the silk screens would look like when using screen printing. They are referred to as positives in the print process.

As you can see there are spot colours in the separation preview. It is good practise to get rid of these as they can be input to the print job and end up costing you more money.