When asked about the details of the paper stock you are choosing for a print project, do your eyes glaze over? Do terms like basis weight, points, and color cast sound like Greek to you? If so, here is a quick list of basic terms to help you better understand the process. Basis weight: is …
So far we have discussed the CMYK Color Space and the RGB Color Space, now we need to go back a few years and talk about Spot Color Printing. The offset printing process is sort of like a box of Crayons. When you setup your press you have an ink fountain that you fill with …
I often am asked “why does the printed pieces not look like the image on my computer screen?” I usually end up sitting with the customer and having a very long complicated discussion about CMYK vs RGB ColorSpace. I have already covered CMYK and now it is time for RGB… RGB ColorSpace use Red Green …
CMYK stands for Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK These are the most common ink colors used in both offset and digital printing. These color can be combined (printed on top of each other) to produce certain spectrum of colors (this is also known as ColorSpace) It is typically used when producing a lot of colors on …
In my last post we discussed what a bleed was and why you needed it. Today we are going to discuss how to setup an InDesign document with a bleed. After opening InDesign you need to create a new document (if you have already created your document, you can go to File>Document Setup…) you will …
According to Wikipedia a “bleed” “…refers to printing that goes beyond the edge of the sheet before trimming.” One of the most common problems we face when we receive “print-ready” files from our customers is that they do not include a bleed in the document when they send it to us. This give us, as …
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