Chapter 16
Prepping to Print
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding the Print dialog box
Using each of the Print dialog panes
Creating an Output Style
Exporting a press-ready PDF
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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