Design for print 2- Mike Flowers:

Following on from the previous Digital print workshop, this sessions focuses on the finer point of software design for print. In this session, it appears that we will learn the finer tuned skills when printing photography/images onto paper.

When discussing all of the printing options with the printers that you are going to use, discuss all of the finished aspects such as embossing, stock, bleeds etc

Using facing pages for booklets or something which folds together such as a publication.

Creating a global swatch which will automatically update any colours on the page which you want to be the same. Preset swatches on In-design are all global swatches by default.

This screen shot represents the swatch panel found on In design. Similar to Illustrator's swatch selection but contains subtle differences.

The grey square to the right of the titles displays that these colours are global swatches.

Spot inks and process inks are different things.

Working with images in Photoshop:

1. 300dip

2.Actual size

3. CMYK or greyscale (RGB is for web)

4.tif or .psd. Don't use JPEG, too small of a file, loses quality

Use Tifs

Reducing the size of an image on indesign or illustrator will be very problematic in the future saving processes, choose the actual size in photoshop.

Working with images in Illustrator:

1.process colours CMYK

2.ai (if placed) but can copy and paste

Images created and edited in photoshop opened using in design as a form to manage the print process.

Composite print - what ever is seen on screen will come out during printing.

Bridget Riley 

 A female artist who uses optical print methods to create her art styles. She differs from the norm of printing and screen printing by overlaying the dots to create a practice which harshly affects the audience's eyes.

When screen printing:

Frequency - 50 lpi (commercial print 150-175)

First angle - 15 degrees (even if only 1 colour)

Second angle - 75 degrees

Third angle - 105 degrees

Fourth angle - 155 degrees