OUGD504 - SB01 - Indesign Workshop

OUGD504 

SB01

Indesign Workshop

Bound Publication - Production considerations

Image quality work flow

- photoshop images for InDesign
- 300 dpi
- prepared at actual size
- colour mode grey scale or CMYK
- file format must be .tif or .psd (JPEG is compressed, image quality is lost every time it is saved)


PNG for screen only

PFD's work in InDesign


Initial Prep for Image 

1)
- open in photoshop > Image > Image size
- set resolution to 300ppi, If changing resolution UNTICK resample
- save as > change format to .tif or .psd
- close image

2)
- InDesign
- Make a frame
- file > place > select file
fill frame proportionally

3) (do just before printing - when layout is finalised)
- link image panel
- select image
- effective ppi should be 300, if not check scale percentage
- to change, right click image > edit with > photoshop
- image > image size
- tick resample > change width and hight to percentage of InDesign Document 
- file > save

Go back to InDesign > Check effective ppi is 300


4)
changing to CMYK or Greyscale
- Right click > edit with > photoshop
- Image > mode > CMYK
- Save


Preperation for Binding

Facing pages, for book layouts
Bleed - 3mm (standard)
slug - used for fold marks or creep marks / job information

Considerations:
 - if printing on A4, has to be printed on paper bigger than A3 to fir crop marks and bleed. Have to use digital print resources. 
- Commercial considerations vs access to resources.


Number of pages - panflet or saddle stitch - must be a multiple of 4
consider binding when setting inside margins

Number of Printers Spreads

Print Booklet

2 Up Saddle Stitch
- Print settings > tick print blank pages
- set up > page position: centred
- Marks and bleed > Tick crop marks
- Printer > two sided: short edge binding

Perfect Bound, for japanese stitch ect.
Multiple of 2
- file > print
- centred
- crop marks
- printer > 2 sided > long edge binding

2 Up Perfect Bound
- Print > print blank pages
- centred
- crop marks
- Printer > short edge for double sided

Additional Considerations
- uper limit - 8 sheets for saddle
- stitch in one section
- will depend on stock
- avoid creep by outputting in seprate sections
- print booklet > set up > print range of pages 
1- 16
17 - 32
33 - 48

when using a mixture of stock:
- Use page range 
- pick out specific pages,
- e.g 5-6, 11-12