Creative Suite Session 3 : InDesign

InDesign

The page size should always be the trimmed size of the print e.g. if its A5 it is set up as A5

Bleed - compensates for any inaccuracies of the print
3mm is a standard measurement 

Slug- is used for printers marks/ fold marks/ crop marks

Primary Text Frame- Will put a text frame on every page

for saddle stitch bind, the number of pages has to be a multiple of four

Document Setup will allow you to change any of the choices from a new document

If you need to find the swatch palette

Swatches show as a mixture of inks

When working with text in the swatch palette a small t appears this means you can change the colour of the text using this icon

(not advisable to change the stroke of the text, it could affect the legibility of the letters)

swatches are named with their colour values (percentages of ink)

they work like the swatches in illustrator, the grey square means they are global, by editing the swatch the whole colour scheme can be changed , across multiple items of that colour

it will also change on all the other pages 

Spot Colours 
change the colour type to spot

then in the colour mode all the spot colour libraries will appear

You can search for any colour using the reference number bar

The name needs to remain as its reference

The square colours have now changed indicating that it is a spot colour

Tints 
The percentage shows of the tint 

You create these by selecting your original swatch and then using the tint slider

And then click new swatch

Preparing images for InDesign on 
Photoshop:

1. make sure that your image is in CMYK colour mode
2. its at actual size (making them bigger will loose quality, smaller will result in extra processing)
3. 300 dpi
4. tiff or psd file type (JPEG may result in extra processing, and it loses quality each time, psd allows you to keep your layers and transparency )

Illustrator

1. CMYK (make sure the colours that have been applied within the document are all CMYK, as you can work with both)
2. save as an ai (you can copy and paste into indesign)(never do this with photoshop)

File >

Place 

Will place your image at its exact size

The spot colour(s) moved over with the document

this will also happen for illustrator documents 

What happens once you have sent your document to print 

When you turn on the view of the separations, ti shows you the image at its full quality, the same as going to over print preview

 You can see there is no difference between the two images, this means that you would be paying for a plate and ink that you didn't need.

You can see how the image will be built up through the printing process, as if they where separate plates

delete colours that aren't being used before sending of to print

Separations, so you can print each positive for each colour separately e.g. for screen printing, commercial print

printer has to be black and white

You can select which ink you want to print,  using the printer icon

the frequency and angle can be manipulated in order to produce half tones- tints in print

Moiré patterns can be made manipulating the angles

so you know which positive page is on the marks and bleeds option you can select page information, and it will tell you the colour below or you could use the slug area yourself

overprint preview

knocking out 
when one colour prints over another and it is blank where the other colour meets

overprinting
black will always overprint

you can change your colours to this overprint option by going to 
window> 
output>
attributes

and selecting overprint

useful for screen print , and so that you can see this

e.g. overprinting mixes the inks and you can get a third colour for no extra cost
you would need to speak to a printer about the availably of this option though

spot colours can specify a spot varnish

you can use a pantone and tell the printer that that process will be a spot varnish and not a colour

you can only see how the inks are going to overprint / knock out when the overprint preview is on