Printing artwork for book printing s
is called pre-press design and typesetting in the industry, and there is a lot
of attention in this regard.
1. The size of the printed matter should be
determined when designing. The size includes the incision size (that is, the
size of the finished product), and the incision size plus a circle size. This
size is more than 3 mm larger than the incision size. This is professionally
called bleeding.
2. Text conversion, text conversion is
mainly avoiding that there is no font you used in the design in the computer of
the printing factory, which
causes the text to be garbled or the layout is disordered, so after the design
document is completed, all the text should be turned into a curve.
3. For bitmaps (such as photos) that appear
in the design file, the color mode of the bitmap used should be CMYK. I heard
that the current production technology, RGB is also possible, but for safety,
it is best to convert to CMYK.
4. Don't have too many Pantone colors in
the document, so that the color will not hurt me when printing. Especially when
the design of the picture is more colorful. If the color is not used much, it
is recommended to use Pantone color, so the color will be better.
5. If you are new to the design of printed
matter, I suggest that after the draft is finished, print a sample to compare
the size of the text, because the size of the text on the computer is not very
accurate.
6. It is not recommended to do the design
file in PS, but to do it in vector software with special typesetting, such as
AI, CDR. Because the text typed in PS will appear jagged and blurred after
printing.
7. If you make a design draft in CDR, it is
not recommended to zoom in, zoom out, and rotate the imported pictures, which
will reduce the quality of the pictures.