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This week we will be concentrating on printing the doucment or book you have been working on.
- Setting up your monitor for color management - note that this overrides any previous settings!!
- Calibrating your monitor and creating an ICC profile using Adobe Gamma
- Start > Settings > Control Panel > Adobe Gamma
- If monitor is listed, select it
- Else hit LOAD, choose a profile that matches your monitor
- LOAD the Adobe RGB (1998)
- Setting optimal brightness and contrast
- Selecting phosphor data
- Setting midtones
- Setting target gamma
- Setting monitor white point
- Saving the monitor profile
- Exporting to Adobe Acrobat PDF files
- File > Export > Formats > Adobe PDF
- Export preferences: General, Compression, Marks & Bleeds, Advanced, Security, Summary
- Default PDF styles: PRESS - high resolution output
- Checking your document before exporting: meeting your service providers specifications
- Perform a PREFLIGHT check
- Warns of problems that may prevent a document or book from imaging as desired, such as missing files or fonts.
- Provides helpful information about a document or book, such as the inks it uses, the first page a font appears on, and print settings.
- [WARNING] The preflight utility checks hidden layers but does not check pasteboard content
- Summary & Report: Alert icon — problem areas
- Transparency issues: flattener settings
- [WARNING] Service provider PostScript Levels
- Color-processing: 3 or 4? RGB or CMYK
- Soft proofing
- [WARNING] Requires accurate calibration of your monitor
- Make sure that color management is on, and then choose Edit > Preferences > Display Performance
- Set the highest-quality view settings to ensure that all graphics and transparent areas use real source information, not proxy information, for display:
- Choose High Quality in the Default View Settings menu.
- Drag the sliders for Raster Images, Vector Graphics, and Transparency all the way to the right.
- Make sure that Enable Anti-Aliasing is checked, and Greek Type Below is set to 0 pt.
- Click OK.
- Choose View > Proof Setup, and choose the output display that you want to simulate:
- Custom, to soft-proof colors as displayed on a specific output device. See Adobe Help for more information.
- Document CMYK, to soft-proof colors using the document's CMYK color model as the proof profile space that you want to simulate.
- Working CMYK, to soft-proof colors using your current working CMYK color space as the proof profile space.
- Choose View > Proof Colors to toggle the soft-proof display on and off. When soft proofing is on, a checkmark appears next to the Proof Colors command.
- Color Separations: Print > Output > Color > Separations
Glossary for Printing
- Marks — In high-quality printing, marks are often added outside the page box. Crop marks indicate where the page should be cut. Cross marks (also known as register marks or registration marks) are used to align sheets. See "Specifying printer's marks" in Adobe InDesign Help.
- Bleeds — A bleed is a printing term for an area on your publication where the ink needs to run all the way to the edge of the paper.
- OPI (open pre-press interface) — A collection of PostScript langauge conventions that allow low-resolution proxy images to be used for lage layout. The high-resolution versions are automatically substituted later by the image substitution server.
- RIPs (Raster Image Processors) — A graphics processor that interprets page description files, such as PostScript, and converts them into device-specific instructions for display or output.
