Print Production

Open a wide range of practical and creative options by learning how to add spot colors and varnishes to your print designs.

Introduces the printing process, from choosing the correct paper, inks, colors, and fonts and correctly laying out the project in Illustrator and InDesign to getting the final product from the printing press floor.

A practical, nuts-and-bolts look at working with PDFs in a production environment.

Reviews the common issues that arise when preparing InDesign documents for printing and shows how to tweak PDF and document settings to ensure the perfect print.

Shows how to prepare Photoshop files for a wide variety of printing devices, including offset printing presses, digital presses, large gamut inkjet printers, and more.

Discover the top ten diagnoses for problem InDesign files, including how to rebuild preferences and deal with corruption errors with INX files.