Tuesday 27 November 2012

Print Workshop 4 - PDF Focus, booklet printing, mass printing, screen printing

Adobe PDf pressets

Press quality - full quality images for print
Smallest file size - proof emails
High quality print - in between the two
Blurb - online printing facility - Send, to print and get back bound too

Setting up for printers

Individual printers have different specifications - Press quality may not work best with them.
Some printers may provide you with a preset

Save PDF > presets available in menu 'Press quality' > change settings accordingly 

Window > Background tasks
When exporting as PDF this is where you see processing
Useful for trouble shooting when PDF is being processes

Print > Printer > Postscript file
PPD Post script printer description > 9040 B&W or > 5550 Colour or Adobe PDF 9.0 (at uni only)
Paper Size > determined by printer.

Making positives for screen printing 
> Use postscript file option > A2 > output > Seperations > Choose ink output 

Acrobat Pro - PDF Software
Acrobat distiller convert postscript file into PDF

Booklet
Print booklet option reorders pages for saddlestitch
May need to save to PDF reordered pages to take to printers
Postscript file > Adobe PDF 9 > print blank pages for booklet print
Pull into Distiller for PDF

To print high amount
place document you want many of onto larger document (A2 for instance)
Edit > Step and repeat




To print double sided, centre content.


Can place indesign file > makes objects editable
How import options

Crop to options
Bleed needs to be included > bleed bounding box


No where to add crop marks - PDF file will do this
Manually need to add crops marks to indesign placed file

File > document setup > add slug options
Add guides and use line tool to create crop marks




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