Preparing Comic Files For Offset Printing - Tips & tricks

[@rogueninja185]

I have no idea what you were doing with all those clean ups and all those layers. I think there s too much info in a preparation video for printing. Actually thought this was about converting already cleaned up pages into a different format for printing. Thanks for the video, your artwork is awesome. If you have separate videos regarding cleanup, balloons and text it would be most welcome.

[@sandman5284]

Have you ever tried to get a printer profile from your publisher? I know you said the profile that you are using right now works fine, but this could be a good way to convert RGB to CMYK without the image mode conversion, and you may be able to save some of those deeper saturated blues. Having a good profile can make a big difference in getting those rich blacks without those secondary edits as well!

[@VinceRushArt]

I love when you have new videos like this up man!

[@JeffLafferty]

Great vid Jason, lot of great tips here

[@paulthewhite]

This is excellent, thanks for posting. It would be cool to also see the next steps after this.

[@drknightny]

love this video jason very informative I was working if you can tell me your setting for clip studio. Page size for example. If you can do a video on that that would be great.

[@marcar365]

Thank you for these tips. Have you tried clip studio paint?

[@RenePfitzner]

This is really helpful. I'm jsut trying to make a PDF download version of my comic: JPEG with vector type. My lettering is nice and sharp in the PDF, but the stroke fill that you demonstrated here still exports as JPEG quality. Is that expected or did I get a setting wrong somewhere? Thanks Jason!

[@fuzzypiglet]

Hi, why don’t you create all of the balloons and text in illustrator?

[@theanimelibarian7881]

Lol just checked for printing thanks

[@d3nd3nd3nd3n]

pro tip: do the 'save as' step FIRST! ;)