Digital Print Workshop- InDesign

Bleed: Bleed is a printing term that is used to describe a document which has images or elements that touch the edge of the page, extending beyond the trim edge and leaving no white margin. When a document has bleed, it must be printed on a larger sheet of paper and then trimmed down.

Slug: A slug area is the name used to describe the area outside the printing area and bleed area of a document that contains the registration mark and other printing instructions for the printer.

When importing Photoshop files into inDesign 

1. CMYK or greyscale
2. tif or psd
3. 300dpi (ppi)
4. images need to be prepared at actual size 

don't work in jpeg as they can cause you problems when you come to print 

don't re-scale your images in inDesign, as it doesn't reduced quality it can cause problems when printing 

before you send your work off to ring use the links panel to check your images are the right resolution and size. 

-working with how many inks

-how much is it going to cost

-use limited amount of links

Seperations pannel

to check how many inks you will be using when printing, tis can be useful to work out costs

Where you can get the colour separation when printing in the output tab

this only works for laser printers

halftone dots 

the printer rotates and the cmyk dots get rotated to make up the colours in the image required 

if you are having a font problem when printing turn the font into an outlines and it will just make the font a vector image