How To: Digital Print Foundations + Efficiencies

Pre-Press Modules

Adobe Suite / Creative Cloud for Print Explained

- Photoshop

- Illustrator

- InDesign

- Acrobat

- Changing Defaults / Panels & Workspaces

- Shortcuts / Actions

Bleeds

- What / Why / How

- Non-Printable Margins

- Adobe PDF Dialog Box Explained + Presets

- Adobe Suite and Bleed Support: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

- Creating Bleeds in Client Files by Cropping into (InDesign, Illustrator)

- Creating Bleeds in Client Files by Generating “Fake Bleeds”

Imposition

- What is it? / Why do we do it?

- Process: InDesign -> Imposition Script

- Process: Photoshop -> InDesign -> Imposition Script

- Process: InDesign -> Fiery Impose + Presets

- Creating InDesign Files as Presets for Imposition Script

Fiery Command Workstation

- What is it? / Why do we use it?

- Basics

- Quick Access Panel

- Presets

- Calibrating with Spectrophotometer Basics

Cost of Goods

- Determining How Much Things Actually Cost Your Business

- Click Charge Model with Sheets

- Wide Format Costing on HP Latex

Pre-Cut Label Sheets

- Creating Template for Pre-Cut Label Sheets

Post-Press Modules

Stack Cutting Method

- Tips / Tricks / Rules: Waste Out, Rotate Stack, Which Side to Cut First?

- Cut Math

Folds & Creases

- Basics / Tips

- Dialing in Your Folds + Creating a Fold Template