Prepress and Printing
Ensure your designs will print as expected by following proper prepress procedures as described in these prepress tutorials, definitions, and articles.
After creating a project you'll want to get the best output whether you use your desktop printer or commercial printing services.
Explore how to print faster, how to print to your desktop printer, how to get files printed commercially, ways to print a photograph, and how to do color printing.
Easy-to-remember guidelines that aren't necessarily hard-and-fast rules or scientific formulas but more than just a dumb guess. These tips cover printing and production for desktop publishing projects.
When you send a digital file out for film or printing more goes along than just your PageMaker or QuarkXPress document. Describes what you would normally send to your service provider.
Discover the range of printing methods and when to use which type of printing process in this quick overview of the various types of desktop and commercial printing processes including inkjet, offset lithography, flexography, and laser.
It's man vs. machine when comparing a commercial printer with a desktop printer. Discover what each means and how to tell by context which printer is meant in desktop publishing articles and tutorials about printing.
Avoid printing delays with this preflight checklist.
Outlines types of proofs including relative cost, groupings by usage, and brand names.
