Indesign Workshop - Preparing for print

PART 1 - Preparing images to be printed 

1. Make sure your images are saved as a tiff or a PSD.

2. In photoshop got to image - image size and make sure the resolution is at 300 whilst making sure the resample box is unticked. This will prepare your image at a high quality for print.

3. Address the mode of the image and change to CMYK colours ready to be digitally printed.

4. In Indesign create an image frame before you place the image. Use a bleed line if necessary ready for finalising the production (trimming the booklet).

5. One the image is placed go to object - fitting (click either one of the top two options)

6. As soon as you have changed an image size in Indesign it lowers the resolution of the image once it has been made larger. Check this on the images link sections and got to link info . In this section look at the actual PPI and the effective PPI (what the image is now it has been made larger).

7. Right click the image - edit with Photoshop.

8. In Photoshop got to image size - click resample and change the % of the image to the same size as Indesign. 

10. File - save and jump back to Indesign. Double click the image on Indesign which you have updated and it will automatically change the resolution of the image.

PART 2 - Ways of printing/ binding 

SADDLE STITCH

1. Saddle stitch needs to be a multiple of 4 and be facing pages.

2. Margins - these may be upped for binding so no work is lost.

3. Bleeds - Helps for trimming booklet. You should usually keep this at 3mm and the add trim marks.

4. A4 and bigger scaled paper needs to be printed in digital print as it needs to be printed on paper larger than A3 once crop marks/ bleeds are added.

5. When printing consider readers spreads and printing spreads. For this remember that page one is always on the right. To work out the calculations manually draw a two sided column. Then fill it in dropping down one column each time placing in the page numbers going from right to left. After this work your way back up filing in the missing page numbers. Consider this when printing on different stocks. 

PRINTING A SADDLE STITCH BOOKLET ...

1. File - print booklet 

2. Select 2-up saddle stitch.

3. Go to print settings - General (tick blank pages), Set up - paper size (what size paper are you printing onto) Also choose your orientation here and make sure the page position is centred for all double sided printing. 

4. Marks and Bleeds - tick crop marks

5. Printer - two sided. Show details and click short edge binding.

6. OK - PREVIEW

HOW TO PRINT SET PAGES...

1. Pages - Range and type in 1-2, 15-16 if you then want the rest of the pages printed on the same stock.

8 sheets of paper is maximum usually for binding using a saddle stitch without pages sticking out of the booklet. 

If the booklet is more than 32 pages print booklet into separate sections using RANGE. If you're wanting to print in 4 pages per booklet then follow ... 1-16 and 17-32 but print each part separately.

PERFECT BIND

1. File - print - double sided

2. Page position -  centred 

3. Crop marks

4. Long edge binding

IN ORDER TO PRINT SINGLE SHEET SECTIONS...

Page 1 - 1,2,3,4
Page 2 - 5,6 ,7,8

1. 2- up Perfect bound 

2. Signature Size - default - 4 pages per section