Prepress production and layout knowledge

Prepress production process:

1. Conceive, design, arrange, plan, prepare materials.

2. Use Photoshop to edit the picture, including modification, color correction, splicing, etc. After processing is complete, you must convert the CMYK TIF or EPS file to 300dpi.

3. Use graph software to create graphs and save them as CMYK EPS files.

4. Make a text file with a plain text writer.

5. After all the materials are ready, combine them with layout software.

6. Deal with trapping issues.

7. Proofing, proofreading, correcting mistakes.

8. Use Postscript printer output to test output availability.

9. Prepare output files, including the use of the platform, the software used, the files used, the fonts used, the font list and location, and the requirements for output.

10. Copy all the files including the used fonts into the MO or CDR along with the output documents to the export company.

Pre-press production font requirements note:

1. Usually headings should be sans serif words, such as bold. However, the headline can also use serif words, such as the song will produce a strong decorative. The main body of the text is serif, and it is the most suitable for the song. (Many publicity texts mistakenly use ball-headed characters, which can make people feel struggling and lose patience.)

2. There should be no more than four types of fonts used throughout (unless you want to show people how many fonts you have on your disc). Usually 3 types are sufficient. The word size should not exceed 5 kinds. For: headline/subheadline/subheadline/text/graphic, generally 3 types are enough. (Excessive fonts and sizes can create clutter and make people's eyes lose their understanding)

3. The use of several different word sizes should be uniform, the subheadings should use the same size, and the body should use the same size. (Wrong use of the word size is like a typo in a promotional item, which makes people question the quality of the product you advertise.)

4. Text color should not change too much, the text must use black, can not use anti-white characters in the text, in some poor quality paper or printing machine will be printed in a stupid, not comfortable reading. (except for greeting cards of course)

5. The text should not be less than 10 points. There are too many people with presbyopia and nearsightedness. You must let most people read it easily and happily. (If your readers are mostly elderly people, you should pay more attention to them.)

6. The text may include some changes to key sentences and words, such as italics, color words, etc. But don't overdo it. Look at the propaganda products of some famous big companies that meet the above principles and respect the above principles. Your design will increase professionalism.

How to pass documents in prepress jobs?

If your file is very small, such as a pure vector file, you may of course consider using E-mail to pass it, but if the file includes pictures, it will often reach 10 to several hundred megabytes in size. You can choose to use a mobile hard disk, MO. , CD-R or U disk transfer, pay attention if you use a mobile hard disk or U disk and use the PC platform, pay attention not to forget to bring the driver. Because if you use the PageMaker6.0 PC platform to output, the output company must have Win98 platform to help and PageMaker6.0 output, if you use the USB interface, Win98 will not automatically recognize USB devices like Win2000, so to bring the driver, if You use the Apple platform (usually very few), then do not have to consider this issue, because Apple comes with drivers, but I think the near future, when the network speed has increased dramatically, you will enjoy the fast and convenient FTP transfer .

How to ensure normal output after prepress production?

1. Guarantee that there is no mistake is the minimum, proofing proofing can prevent the mistake of the document.

2. To take care of the trouble caused by trapping, we must take this into consideration when designing and prevent the occurrence of problems.

3. Use the Postscript printer output test. Generally speaking, this step does not cause an error and your file is not a problem, because the imagesetter also uses Postscript format output.