How to export your file for print // Adobe Illustrator + InDesign // Print Ready Files Series

[@neirbo69]

just wanted to say i needed alot of help today sorting out very large photos and their DPI in a document for printing, and you helped me out tremendously, thanks so much, you were a BIG help, saved my skin!

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

That is so rad to hear!! Glad you got value out of this video. Also, awesome you are designing print!!

[@loomonda18]

Excellent series!!! Thank you again!

[@lasithsangel]

Great series, thank you and well done team!

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Thanks for your comment! We try our best!

[@kumikooo2]

Thank you so much for this series! It made it easier for me to understand

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

I'm so glad we could help out! We have a lot more in-depth goodies in our course and private community. There's a free trial too to check it out! 🤗 www.printdesignacademy.com/trial

[@loriezweifel3364]

Hi, I am thankful to find you today... how can I export two artboards that will be printed separately, however will be placed on the wall together to look as one.

[@Firehorsemoons]

Excellent, but I really needed to see press print too

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Hey there! A lot of the work we teach are files that are going to be sent to professional printers so hitting print on our end isn't quite the same.

[@kanakenthiran]

Great job 👍

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Danafinland]

Illustrator, rich black, so when you say "smaller" don't use on smaller type, .... my pen and ink drawings -some are very thin detailed lines, but it covers an 11x14 page. So is that what you mean by smaller for rich black?

[@Danafinland]

on and it's all vectorized

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

I would not recommend using rich black for your illustrations. It's usually most beneficial in designs that have a huge flood of black. Where the entire background is black ink. For a coloring book. 100% Black is your best option. :)

[@coralantler]

Mine isn't exporting my background colors for some reason. I've never had it do this before. Do you know what could be causing this?

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Sorry for the late reply here! Gosh hard for me to say without seeing the file. Hope you were able to figure it out, or if you have more details I can try and help further

[@GeekyStuff]

Hi! I am working on a banner in Illustrator, but I have realised all my content is on the cutter layer and not the ARTWORK layer. Can I just move them to the ARTWORK layer?

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Hey heyyy. Sorry getting to this a touch later, but yes! you can totally just move artwork in between layers. - First have a new layer that's going to be your CUT layer. - Then, you need to have the cut path/art selected (doesn't matter which layer it's on right now). - Next, you'll see in the layer panel on the very right there will be a little color square (the color matches the color of the current layer). That represents the selected artwork. - You can now literally click and drag that mini square to your new CUT layer and it'll move that selected artwork to the right spot! BAM Hope that makes sense!! hard to explain over comments. Also! We have a private community for our Academy and if you're interested. It's where all our members get direct access to my help with file questions and other print things. www.printdesignacademy.com/trial

[@TheSelenaTorres]

Do you guys have any book recommendation for graphic designer that are just getting into print?

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Great question. We don’t, but if you check out the link in the description for our free PDF on Print Ready Files it will get you started. There are also some courses you can check out after getting the free PDF.

[@ShravanVHegde]

Thats great info video though but when we are exporting or saving for print format aren't we supposed to curve all the fonts and share it with the printers? Coz everyone will not be having a fonts what we use for designing our collaterals and if we do not any of them copy the texts what we have put on that.

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Yes! Absolutely need to make sure fonts are outlined or atleast supplied in a packaged file. Did you see this video in the series? I go into all the type do's + don'ts in this one >>>> kzbin.info/www/bejne/havRhoJmdpxpZqM

[@christianmotos]

I'm trying to print cards to Staples and followed all your instructions and theirs but when i upload the design it looks blurry and the proof is muddy.

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

It could be that your images are too low of a resolution? Sometimes forcing the image into 300dpi if the starting size is too small it will still appear blurry.

[@Catsaresupergreat]

Great video, thanks heaps!

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

So glad you got value out of it! Thanks for checking out our channel.

[@Danafinland]

The only thing I did not see is how to do crop and bleed in illustrator.

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Are you prepping all the pages of the coloring book yourself or just sending the illustrations to another company for them to add to a design?

[@asitsharma2802]

hi! How can I check if the image i am using doesn't get pixelated after the print? Also, is there any way to convert that image into a quality that will be good to go for the print? If you want I can share more details.

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

The best way to check is to print it! If you have a home printer you can see a test quickly, but otherwise you're going to want your image in 300dpi. You have to be careful to see that the starting resolution isn't soooo incredibly low that when you make it 300dpi it's just going to be blurry still. I go through images for print in this video here though. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWKbgXt9Zc2iZ5I