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- Trousermouse
Morning.
I know nothing about sending "fancy" things to print, and my mate has asked me to design his wedding invitiations...
Just a simple wee card with "wedding invitation" wriiten on the front cover in some kind of nice shiny "embossed" or glittery specially printed thing...
How do I set this up in e.g. Illustrator (or InDesign) and then send it to print?? Is it something to do with spot colours??
Cheers... starting to panic a bit.
- stewart0
do it using illustrator.
and be sure to convert every font to outline before sending the final design to the printshop.
- Trousermouse0
Cheers Stewart, that's good news. I know my way around Illustrator more so than InDesign...
How do I set up the document to have a bit of text that says "Wedding invitation" and have that in a fancy printed way? e.g. the printer prints it so it is gold and raised from the paper... know what I mean??
- tank0
you put that in a pantone color and inform the printer this has to be replaced by for instance pantone gold( it wil be a pantone color)
than tell this has to be a highprint( thats a direct translation from dutch, i dont know the english)don't forget yoru 3mm bleed and your 5 mm border where you cant punt anything...
cheers
- stewart0
if you give me the dimensions of the wedding invitation i can make a quick setup in illlustrator with some comments and send it to you.
- Trousermouse0
Cheers Stew - just emailed you... hope you can help!
- HumanMale0
Spot varnish baby... mmm, shiny.
Tell 'em what you want and they'll fucking sort it for you.
- Trousermouse0
Is it really that easy though Mr Male?
Design a doc in illustrator; send it to the printer but tell him "I want this printed on fancy white paper, and I want this line in spot gold varnish".
"Ahem. Fucking fix it, my good man".
Is it that simple?
- HumanMale0
Well yeah, joking apart it is, especially if you've got a good relationship with the printer.
Trace and colour in (new layer, usually black) the area you want in the special ink, tell the printer what you want and they'll sort it.
It's their job.
- stewart0
look at the document i sent you, it's all in there, including a commentslayer with comments for your printer (print this gold, this black etc).
- HumanMale0
stewart – could you forward that to me too please?! :)
- Trousermouse0
Stew... not received anything from you...
Male - don't you need to choose these "fancy" layers as spot colours...?
- stewart0
sent it to your retroworldthing account.
resend it to your hotmail?
- Trousermouse0
are you still on this email address stew:
- stewart0
yeeees....
- Trousermouse0
Nah I should be able to get emails to - obviously just taking it's time... it is Sunday I s'pose...
I just sent you a couple of thingys too. A front and backside of a document...
- stewart0
had a look at your documents.
a printer can work with that, but you better make a few changes.like: change all fonts to outlines, and disable the printoption in the foldinglinelayer and commentslayer.
good luck! i'm going for a walk now!
- gramme0
Is it really that easy though Mr Male?
Design a doc in illustrator; send it to the printer but tell him "I want this printed on fancy white paper, and I want this line in spot gold varnish".
"Ahem. Fucking fix it, my good man".
Is it that simple?
Trousermouse
(Aug 20 06, 02:46)make your type the appropriate pantone color. Duplicate it, make another layer, put a note outside the trim area that says that layer is non-printing (you can also set it up to be a non-printing layer in Illus. or InDesign.
I'd recommend doing it in InDesign if it's printed inside & out.
Send outlined & un-outlined versions with fonts included. InDesign makes it ridiculously easy to collect fonts: apple-option-shift-f (if you're on a Mac)
:)
- mbr0
anyone care to forward it on again?
Thanks
design7712@yahoo.c om