Design Production, Design For Print Workshop - OUGD504

This was my first workshop into design for print. It spoke about considerations for preparing digital artwork or layout that will be commercially printed. We will be looking into how we do this using the main adobe software:

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign

Commercial Print Process - Ways things can be commercially printed:

Offset Lithography

Digital Print

Screen Printing

We are going to be looking at offset litho. It is one of the oldest form of printings and is a traditional process.

We will look how the software we use is created to be worked in with this print process. The main focus will be the use of colour and how we use this for print.

Digital Modes:

CMYK - Subtractive

RGB - Additive

CMYK:

Ink mixes on the paper. The ink are transparent which creates the overlapping of the ink, to achieve the different colours. 

We can produce the various colours due to how the colours work with one another.

Black is a key colour, we need this to 'key' everything together.

Varying amounts to create different tones.

Issues with the shadows, registrations etc and this is why the black is applied, to 'pull' the colours together to achieve our full colour print.

In this session we will be working with Illustrator.

Swatch pallet creates for more consistency within work, rather than making sure everything is correct with using the sliders.

We need to make more specific colours rather than using the swatch colours.

We start by removing anything we do not need in the swatch pallet, so we can use the most relevant colours.

 

Printers Marks: We use registration marks etc in the print process to check artwork is correct. When we print each separate colours, these will have crop and registration marks. (Printed outside the area of artwork).

In colour swatch, recommended we work in list view, more information about the colour information. I will need to get into the routine of creating swatches as they are more accessible, easier and consistent:

We can create our own swatches as well as making these 'global'. It is possible to also move swatches between programs for further ease and accessibility: