Skip to Content
Production for Print
book

Production for Print

by Mark Gatter
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
160 pages
6h 36m
English
Laurence King
Content preview from Production for Print

 

Preparing the File for the Printer

12

 

The final step in the graphic design process is making sure that everything is ready for the printer. Oddly enough, this is when most mistakes happen. Why? Because things like color mode, image formats, grayscale and color calibration, color management systems, the ability to create a good PDF in which everything necessary to successful printing is included, were not taken care of along the way. And of course, the list goes on. And all of these things create stress which you do not need to go through.

The wish to get away from the stress caused by “not knowing how it is done” is, hopefully, why you bought this book in the first place. This chapter tells you how to check your work, and then how to ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Real World Print Production

Real World Print Production

Claudia McCue
Numbers in Graphic Design

Numbers in Graphic Design

Roger Fawcett-Tang

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781856696999