OUGD504. Design Production. Design for Print. Creative Suite Session 3

today we had the third session on indesign.

we started off by re capping what we know. we talked about bleeds and slugs then went on to look at colour and swatches. colour is the same in indesign.

a grey dotted box means the colour is global and a cmyk box means the colour is printable.

you can create swatches the same as in illustrator.

you can also set up (add) new tints if your working with limited colours. tints of that colour will mimic any actions made to the colour, i.e red to blue - all the red tints will change to blue tints.

we talked about considerations when importing vectors and photos
- resolution - 300dpi
- size of the image
- cmyk or spot
- tiff or psd


cmyk colours applied in sequence overlayed to create tone and definition.

then we looked at print and colour sepaeation with indesign. the above design has cmyk plus one spot colour so 5 in total. 

separations preview pallete gives a view of the possible inks to be used in print.

this box shows all the print make up colours and you can see them all individually.

reffered to as positives like in screen printing.

its good practice to delete any unused spot colours from the pallete before printing so theres no chance of them being outputted.

bin.

use marks and bleed to organise, test and compose printed material

use output box to check colour and swatches and spots and m ake sure everything is right before print

frequency and angle relate to half tone printing and the size and amount of dots in a space for whatever colour

separation process only work on laser print process

indesign, when using colours overlapping each other like in two overlapping objects, will automatically prepare to print so that overlapping colours are not printed on top of each other and the colour underneath will instead be 'knowcked out' so that the transparency and mixing of ink doesnt mess the print.

inks can also be overprinted if the colour is dark enough to not be affected by the underlying colour.

using attributes in object window aloows to see overlapping colours as they would be printed and so on so that overlayers can create other colours like in screen printing.

have to be in overprint preview to see these effects and changeas

separations preview also gives you your ink limit

if working with spot varnishing you can select colours to be printed over the cmyk base colours