WHAT IS DESIGN FOR PRINT?//MAC SUITE SESSION THREE//OUGD504

WORKSHOP SESSION THREE- INDESIGN
InDesign software choice for combining image and type in layout format
File>new document, usually preferred over 'book'

page size is very important, what is the finished printed trimmed size of whatever I am producing?  Mistake that you shouldn't make it set up an A4 and then print an A5 document onto it.  Working to a grid which is a number of columns you can put guides on the page so it gives you consistent guides which enables you to have consistent layout.  Similarly with margins if you need a consistent amount of white space around text then its useful to have consistent space around the page, margin guide will  help you with that consistency, makes it easy for you to consider that text.  Button that says 'MORE OPTIONS' this has the options for bleed and slug.  Anything that goes to the end of your page should be extended a certain amount of the page in order to not be cut off when printing.  Before you start you should speak to printer about your work, talk about stock, how much bleed to have on your document, file format etc.

STANDARD BLEED: 3MM, always confirm with the printer that thats the amount you require
Slug is used for printers marks, crop marks, defines an area outside the page that will print, not as common as the bleed margin.
'FACING PAGES OPTION' if your document is going to be a publication such as a book then you should select the certain amount of facing pages you wish to have in your publication.  This will display how it will be printed which is helpful for layout.

You can use inDesign for print which is its primary purpose.  If you click 'primary text frame' it will give you a frame on each page of your document linked together, each frame is linked to the next, if your working with a large body of text you can import that text and it will automatically be placed.

BLACK LINE-where the page will be trimmed to
BLUE LINE- slug
RED LINE-bleed
PINK LINE-margins

(right) pages palette gives you an overview of your document:

APPLYING COLOUR:
Adding colour into an inDesign document:you must create a frame, the swatch palette is similar to Illustrator , always suggest in inDesign you create swatches.

NEW COLOUR SWATCH:

SPOT COLOUR: to add a spot colour, or if you have a specific pantone you can click on the colour mode drop down box and select: 'PANTONE+ solid uncoated' you can then type in the pantone reference.

CREATING A TINT SWATCH:

select a swatch, then go to 'new tint swatch' in the drop down menu, finally adjust the tint to what you want, then select add tint.

PHOTOSHOP CHECKLIST: (things to consider when transporting documents from photoshop to inDesign)

• if you are working with colour your images should be in CMYK or greyscale 
• resolution, 300 dpi
• make image actual size that they are going to be when put on inDesign, no resizing on inDesign
• PSD or TIFF

ILLUSTRATOR CHECKLIST:

• Ai- copy and paste
• CMYK
• you can scale illustrator work on inDesign because its vector based, wont make any changes to the print quality.

Every new document has default swatch settings.

Go to file>place image...you can see that the duotone swatches that have been used in this image have been placed in the swatch palette, PANTONE 273C

PANTONE YELLOW C

as you can see the pantone colours have been placed in the swatch palette:

PANTONE 279C

PANTONE 108C

If you apply a greyscale tiff you can apply colour to it by selecting the image, clicking in the middle until the framed boarder to brown:

then you can select a colour from the swatch palette, making sure it is on fill colour rather than stroke and then you can change the colour of the image:

Photoshop: in order to make a background transparent, go to layers, double click on background:

then select the magic wand tool and click on the white, the background will disappear

then save the image as a photoshop file:

 then place the image onto inDesign, and the bird should then be able to be placed on a background:

Go to window>output>separations preview

you then go to the view drop down menu and select separations, you can see from the two images below that when the drop down box is clicked on separations the image is a lot clearer than when the drop down menu is selected as off:

Selecting the drop down box to 'separations' then the colours are allowed to be selected, you can look at the image minus cyan, magenta, yellow, black or any of the spot colours, this is the image with just cyan being displayed:

when your printing CMYK these colours are printing on top of each other, these four colours combined make up the image.

TRAPPING (printing)

 Trapping is a term most commonly used in the prepress industry to describe the compensation for misregistration between printing units on a multicolor press. This misregistration causes unsightly gaps or white-space on the final printed work. Trapping involves creating overlaps (spreads) or underlaps (chokes) of objects during the print production process to eliminate misregistration on the press.