Mid-Term Notes

Midterm and Final Review Pre-Media GRA 323 Final 70-80 questions Job think (folding dummies, lay canvass plans, calculations) 25% of final mark Review WP. Of lay cruise and folding dummies Calculations how umpteen plates- abbreviate palls- how m whatsoever an(prenominal) times through and through squelch. - Study * Media package Trim box art box * Preflight what it is * The specs for the line of products. * Four atomic number 18as of preflighting colors * housing what it is why * 4 types of trapping completely over print chock * trapping distort the lighter colour dark makes body-build * Lightness mea surelys through grey scale Separate colour comp * Trapping tolerance ? row dots * Job planning who does them what it is determine specs where do we start (we talk to bindery) * Bindery con siderations * complot consideration colors, prevarications enough units * Press sheet sizing * Job specs double check * Basic graduations to good job planning * Imposition touc h tune, knaves, turns where do we guide the least(prenominal) space non needed * Know EACH IMPOSITION STYPE * Head orientations * Number up, figure kayoed * congregation dummy, laysheet plan * One laysheet plan for every form * Kodak Preps (part of a move aroundflow) Preps spot imposition * Prep job campaign list gear upholder non kindred a printegy in that location ar different orders * Preps mark, text marks protean data - - Lectures workweek 1-6 Notes Week 2 Preflighting I Preflighting Introduction & manual(a) * Preflighting is non evermore d wiz by one person. * The client female genitalia fix it as well * Press errors include trapping, too many colours, etc * Fonts are still the biggest problems regarding pre-flight beca purpose of the different types of fonts there are.DO NOT USE city FONTS. Manual & Software Assisted * You should depart the size / crop the characterization in Photoshop, so that its size-as in inDesign. * Do non put on . gif ikons , and you can sort of get by with . jpg alone it is not advised. * tie-in every image, and make sure its updated. * For vectors, you should stick with . ai, . pdf, . eps. * Less editable Week 6 Imposition I * What is imposition? Its the placement of the rogues so when I fold the press sheet it creates a book with the least amount of work. * Minimize vaunt, maximize press sheet. * Passes Can we do it in one job? Make sure you always communicate with bindery because they technically determine how the job should be handled. * Signature Double-sided sheet meant to be folded down. * most 5 common geniuss of imposition * Sheet acute / Sheetwork (SW) * Perfecting * Work & Turn * Work & bung/Flop * Flatwork * Form one side of a signature * Page/Folio one rapscallion single side of a page or paper. * Sheet One piece of substrate * 1-up/ off One set of sheet makes one final product. * Tumble flips the sheet over. * Must cut paper before printing for perfect size.Make sure the length of the sheet is the said(prenominal) on all sheets to ensure priggish registration. * Flatwork is a job that does not necessitate any sheet work. It is usually a single sided sheet. Imposition Styles Sheetwork * Most Common Layout * diametrical photographic plates sets for front and pricker forms * Requires two side guides, maintains same side guides * unfold acuity never changes * 1 up/ 1out * Lip and QC Bar are always opposite of gripper * Uses one set of plates for both sides * Front and back pages on single plate * Lead march does not change * incline guide CHANGE * 1 up/ 2 out * Uses one set of plates for both sides * One set of plates for both sides spatial relation grippers remains same * Gripper edges changes * Sheet is cut in half afterwards printing and results in two identical signatures * Is considered sheetwork but sheet tumbles betwixt units confusable to work and tumble * Two sets of plate need * Side guides gruntle the same * In single pass sheet beq ueath tumble between units and print on both sides - science laboratory Notes Demos Lab 2 Document Construction Palettes * Separation Preview. Is a good animate being for preflighting and running a diagnostics of your plates * Swatches. Delete the colors you are not using decreases archive size * Info.Tells you the x,y and w x h * Links. Lets you fill out if your images are compatible with the file and allows you to update them Indesign * In inDesign, you must occupy the swatches and separation preview palette apply. * Switch content to graphic or text. Photoshop Duo-tone. Gray scaled image. In Photoshop, you go to Image Mode Duotone. * BE CAREFUL OF THE COLOUR NAMES. It doesnt support . TIFF so stay with . psd * The ppi is an info palette, make sure the ppi matches to muniment create. * For the student directory you can induce a color that looks give care a cmyk BUT it cannot be a spot color.Lab 4 Trapping Demo What is Trapping? * Trapping is a prepress procedure that introduces areas of color into color separations. When printed, these areas obscure potential register errors * These errors are usually caused by the paper shifting or changing shape while it is printed, or by presses or plates that are out of register. * Trapping introduces corrective color elements to a printing job In the plow of trapping, new elements are added to the color separations. When printed, these elements compensate for potential problems on the press. Types of Trapping Simple trapping elements are called spreads and chokes. Refer to Powerpoint * Two types of trapping sign trapping for text, object trapping two colour objects that touch from to each one one other. * inDesign Preferences Appearance of black. Make sure black is 100% and not sufficient black. Overprint fill Includes all the colour so it shows in all the plates. WE WANT TO OVERPRINT. * Theres attributes, separation preview, swatches palette. * Trapping is virtually the same in inDesign and Illu strator. * Overprint small black type Output Questions to remove before Preflighting 1. What are the specs of the job? * Safety * Bleeds * lpi * Size of document * Color process 4/cp or 2/cp * 2. Are there any spot colors? If yes what are they? Preflighting Profile Preflight panel * happen the button on. It check everything you do and detects any error while the file is still open * Define profiles.For the lpi you can possibly get away with 1. 5 x lpi instead of the 2 x lpi rule - later on Mid-Term Lectures Week 8-12 Notes Week 8 Impositions High Folio and measly Folio. Low foliage consists of pages in the front half of a signature. High folio refers to the pages in the back half of the signature. * The dividing line is the center spread. 1/4 extra material on the back of the page or pages of an hold in or signature needed on the saddle sew togetherer to pull open the piece. High folio is a reference to blueer page song in the back of the publication. These terms are appli ed almost altogether to saddle stitch stick to, where wire stitches are used to bind the powder magazine along its spine. * A lip is an extension of one side of the signature beyond the other side. In a high lip the high folio side extends beyond the low folio side of the signature. A low folio lip is just the opposite. Up, Out (e. g 1 up/ 1 out) How many of the same image up on a sheet (In this case 1 image), how many copies of each image you get out of the sheet when cut (in this case 1). Lead boundary line/Trail Edge Lead edge is the edge of the sheet that enters the press first (gripper).The trail edge is the other end. Registration is tighter on the tone down edge Folding Dummies. Is essential a mock sport of your real(a) book. It provides readers with a look of how the impositions will look like and whether the images on the page will work or not. * Folding dummies are an essential step in the proofing process. They can help you catch mis motors like misaligned text , bleeds that do not meet along the fold, and a number of other possible errors or miscalculations. A dummy helps plan the imposition Some important marks knowledge should be included on a dummy, like 1. Gripper edge 2.Side guide 3. Spine 4. Heads 5. Lip * Template numbers are always circled * Needs to be assembled for the correct binding method saddle stitch (inserting) vs. perfect binding (gathering) * Creep is the shifting position of the page in a saddle-stitched bind. Creep moves the inside pages or signatures away from the spine. * Grindoff is the 1/8 (approx. ) that is removed along the spine of gathered signatures before perfect binding Laysheet Each side of a signature will have a laysheet plan (one for each set of plates) * Except for Work and Turn or Work and Tumble * When creating a laysheet, keep in mind Plate gripper is NOT a part of the laysheet * Paper gripper allowance is * Do not forget Colour control bars (QC Bar) * Work & Tumble and Perfecting require extra * space on backup side (gripper) Week 9 Kodak Preps Imposition Templates * Preps XL Designed for on demand printing outcomes * Preps gain for the commercial printing industry and is the most widely used version around the world * Preps Pro designed for both of the above as well as entanglement includes support for OPI, multi-section templates for imposing more than one signatures on a press sheet, AppleScript as well as net growth compensation.Preps is an industry leading imposotion softwar that can be used as a standalone application or as part of an advance workflow. * As a job is created, the job is previewed in real time. Zoom in on single pages or complete signatures, including marks. When you change a mark, or a page or a layouts properties, the preview right away updates, providing an instant check for potential errors. * Use the Smart attach Software feature to place marks or groups of marks on press sheets, and save them in templates. The marks are placed relative to the sheet size, gutter, or page (rather than static placement).SmartMarks automatically reposition and resize themselves when press sheet sizes change. * When a complex imposition is ready, you can print a report of the slender job plan, for signoffs, or to include with the job ticket. Then output JDF information with the folding and cutting data, to speed up post press operations. Preps Templates. incorporate collections of generic reusable signature for imppsing prep jobs. When you select and apply a signature from a template to a job preps flows the job pages through the signature framework to produce obligate outputs. Basic Preps TemplatePreps Signatures. Are like containers for signature each of which contain information about a circumstantial press sheet size. * Each template has one binding style * Signature are added to preps job for creating your imposition file Preps Imposition. An imposition container is added to each preps signature that holds your instructions about ho w and where the pages are to be place on the press sheet. Impositions be the number of pages in signature the final page size and the head orientation of pages. The template with signature and imposition defined preps job.A file is a staging ground for the final imposition. It combines input files and imposed signatures. It uses a run list to organize imposition pages. With outputting the template of preps we need to create a unpopulated adobe job ticket to use with the RIP. It does not have files or pages assigned to the imposition. Side Guide Marks (Bounce Mark). Indicates positioning of the side guides on press Text Marks. Used to amaze information about the job. It can be static or variable. Static. Is inunt at the time the electronic imposition is created and does not change Variable.Use predefined variables to represent legitimate text that will be extracted from the job at the time of output Week 10 Kodak Prinergy Originally developed in 1999 through a partnership between creo and Heidelberg It is connected to PDF native workflow it is a server-based solution accessed through client software Prinergy centralizes and integrate processes for PDF Production Resources for fonts and images Normalize Preflight- similar to what we have already done Colour management and spot colours Tapping Optimize (image workflow OPI, resolution and colour spaces ImpositionsKodak Viural Proff * separates the files * imposed press sheet * RIPped dot proof * Week 11 Job planning and imposition preparation a job 1. Determine the max number of pages on a press sheet Take the max press size and divided this by the length and width of the page including bleeds Then take the max number out this equals the number of pages side to side engender by two and you get the number of pages to a sheet 2. prison-breaking down jobs into signatures How many pages can be in each signature Max 8 pages for sheetwise and perfecting Max 4 pages for work and turn and work and tumbleThere are a t otal of 12 pages so, 8 pgs sheet wise and 1 4pg work and turn 3. Create fold and label dummies Folding dummies determine the imposition order 4. Create laysheet plans 5. Calculate number of press sheet plates and passes required Week 12 Imposition consideration web offset About we Roll of continues paper * The principles are the same but the difference is you print on rolls * Print on both sides at once. * Print blanket to blanket * 10-15 000 impressions an hour * No gripper and no side guide. Because you feed the paper into the web press. * Run everything to the center of the web. Weed edge * Has impact on imposition * It is the workhorse of magazine printing. The way the job is run through a web press has an impact on the jobs imposition A Web Offset Press In line folder. The web is coming off printing units and gets folded in half. Planning a web job Limitations. Image length and the length of any cut off. Only one options to cut off sheet indeed it must be maximized. Web sheet The sheet length- or fictionalize length b. c its one circumference of the sheet length Where does the waste come from? Plate gripper and blanket gripper Web imposition You cannot print a web twice