13th November, Printing and Proofing

During Gal’s lesson, he gave us a demo on printing. This included preparation, using the tools and effectively getting the right levels of paint. The example prints came out really well on a range of different materials.

When it comes to myself printing on T-shirts I will have to bring a large amount in order to get the best design outcome possible. This will help me find out if my mesh is effective enough and shows my design clearly and effectively.

Matt afternoon lesson

Talking about final product. How the design process mostly results in a physical product being made.

Proofing

Making sure everything is correct before printing, not doing this could result in big loss of money.

People involved in proofing
-       - You
-       - Peers
-       - Proof Reader
-       - Art Director
-       - Client

Getting the client to sign off will be the end, and the designer is bulletproof, any changes and mistakes are now their issue and they will have to pay for reprints or re-designs.

Try to find problems when it comes to the proofing stage.

Bleed is very important in order to keep design measurements perfect and sharp, when certain documents are cut they move ever so slightly which can send designs off centre. This causes huge problems when prints are finally put together.

The print marks for the bleed can be printed easily. This is done through ‘Print’ then ‘Marks and Bleed’. You can then tick and un tick different options. You can also do seperations for different documents using CMYK, this displays all the particular components of colour that are being incorporated to the design.

Printing with spot colours is much more expensive but allows you to get more out of design. The spot colours could be fluorescent, glow in the dark, gold, gloss colours, chrome and more.  



CMYK – Process

Singular Ink – Spot

Spot colours are used widely across industry, many big companies own a specific pigmentation of colour that is used in their branding. For example Coca Cola own their specific pigmentation of red.

Pantone images can be selected through creating a spot colour, these Pantone colours will need to be downloaded this includes Metallic and Neon

Gloss prep
-       The gloss layer needs to be created separately
-       This is because the normal colour is printed first and then the gloss is printed at a later point
-       The separate layers then need to be saved seperately

Matt has put a lot of helpful links on the Farnborough website that are helpful

Matt also recommends ‘The Print Handbook’



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