OUGD504 Creative Suite Session 4

Five Ink Job
9 Errors
INDESIGN- Applying our knowledge to check documents

Errors
First things first we noticed that the fact that the documents colour set up would of needed 6 plates when the agreed amount was a 5 ink job this means that one of the spot colours shouldn't be in the menu. We were taught that it was good house keeping to delete all unused spot colours, to avoid extra cost.

The next mistake we found was one of the images has been output as a jpeg rather than a tif or an Ai file. This means the image has been compressed and the quality wont match the rest of the document.
If you right click an image and go to Edit with then you can re-open the the image within Photoshop which should be the default setting. (hold alt and double click the image) The image will re open immediately to enable you to edit. 

The next mistake we saw was the fact the images have been re-sized on Indesign rather than the source file itself. This will make the document unnecessarily big which could lead to problems in processing the print job or compressing the file. 'Effective PPI:129' which is too small so open it back up in Photoshop and go to image size. Ask the client to higher the resolution to rectify as the res will still be quite low can use more pixels

Some images have been saved with the RGB mode.

Some images have a lower resolution than 300dpi.

Some images have drastically high resolution which could create problems in processing later.

One of the colour swatches has been set as RGB to fix this the swatch was changed in the right colour mode and adjusted to the right tint.
It is an issue if this swatch is in actual fact being used, there is a danger that this is an outer gamma colour. Could come back from the printers not what you had expected. By double clicking on the swatch you can edit the swatch from RGB to CMYK and it will change it automatically.

Something else we found was one the images didn't bleed off the page this could have caused problems in the cropping process.

The website at the bottom of the design is set to be in Registration colour which is something from crop marks, fold marks etc: therefore it will appear on every plate which results in a lot of ink being used and it will come out unclear and the clarity wont be very god- To solve this we simply need to change the type from registration colour to black.


Grey scale image which has had a spot colour applied to it with a spot colour. This is OK to do in Indesign. If was a greyscale tiff file ypu can create a duo tone image by changing the colours by just clicking and using the swatches. (disregard the spelling mistake)

Quick way to check the document go to file then package, makes a copy of the Indesign file this will then allow you to gather everything and make one folder so you can pass everything on to the printer. Before it packages it gives you a summery of the document which shows you all the above issues and more. Will tell you if any links or fonts missing, but also if there are any RGB issues, how many colours and inks we are using.

 To save as a PDF if that what you prefer, go to File, Adobe PDF Presets then go to Press Quality which is for the very best print out. High quality print would be suitable for the printers within College. If you were to make a PDF for email or on Issuu (just for computer purposes) then you use the PDF which has the smallest file size. The great thing about the PDF is that it contains everything, Fonts, images etc. So you only have one file.