InDesign User Group

Brisbane InDesign User Group

From InDesign to Printer, best practice workflows.
Thu, Jun 5, 2008, 6:30 PM
Design College Australia
501 Adelaide Street
Brisbane, Queensland 4000
Australia

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Meeting details

Michael Barnard will share his knowledge of how to get the best results on paper from InDesign. Michael will demonstrate the best practice workflows, so you can use all of InDesign’s features without fear that it won’t output correctly. You'll learn how to create and manage your design projects for transit while maintaining full control over the output.

Topics will include:
• Fonts
• Colour Spaces
• Bleeds
• Resolution (DPI/PPI/LPI)
• Transparency
• How to not to annoy your printer

Aside from the all the pitfalls of print and how to avoid them, Michael will also discuss some of the advantages of digital printing and how with the latest digital offset presses you can achieve high-quality print in short runs, but also the unique advantage of variable data printing, opening the door to personalisation and versioning.

Agenda
6.30pm: Arrive (Drinks and nibblies available)

7.00pm: Michael Barnard will go through the best way to set up your InDesign file for a digital printer.

8.00pm: Questions and Comments

8.30pm: The evening ends

About the presenter
Michael Barnard is an experienced print designer and project manager who works for ColourWise, Brisbane's digital print specialists.