Chapter 16

Prepping to Print

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Understanding the Print dialog box

check Using each of the Print dialog panes

check Creating an Output Style

check Exporting a press-ready PDF

check Resolving some common print issues

When working with a complex application such as QuarkXPress, you have dozens of choices to make in the Print dialog box, based on what you’ve created, what kind of printer you’re using, and what process you use to print your final product. This chapter presents what you need to know to work with the QuarkXPress Print dialog box and all its panes, as well as what you can ignore.

This chapter also tells you how to customize an Output Style for each printing scenario that you use repeatedly, saving you the hassle of redoing that setup every time. And in case you need to ship your project to a commercial printer, you can follow the steps in this chapter that tell you how to export your press-ready file. Finally, sometimes a preview of your printed images or fonts doesn’t look quite right, ...

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