Production for print

Open publication - Free publishing - More print

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I have finished my final designs for my client boards.

Open publication - Free publishing - More african

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I have printed my final poster, postcards and packaging. It was really hard to work out how to print my packaging, as it is double sided and quite a difficult net. It took three attempts but with the help of James in digital print we got there in the end. I need to remember for future reference that it needs to be flipped horizontally and vertically when being printed double sided as it goes back through the printer up side down.
I am really pleased with these prints and think the colour matching has come out well, especially considering all of the different layers and gradients I have been using in my designs. However I have found that the colours on my designs vary depending what screen I've been looking at. The matt screens in the digital dungeon of course were the most accurate.
I have filled in parts with gold pen, these are supposed to be foil stamped. I would have done it myself but  there were no screens left to buy.

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I have finished my design for my packaging. I chose to use the pyramid shaped net so that it can work as both packaging and a leaflet on the inside. I have kept the same basic design as the posters and banners.

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I have been finishing off my poster ready for print later today. I have adjusted the layout and images slightly, but have also considered the print settings.

I have decided that I will either want to foil or a spot colour where the dots are on the main image so I have created a separate spot swatch, as so far I have been using just CMYK.

Where PANTONE 111 U is either the gold spot or foiling will go.

I have also left room for a 3mm bleed.

I am a bit worried about the ink limit being too much in some areas so I thought I'd double check this on InDesign. We got shown this in one of our sessions, but I couldn't work out a way to do it on illustrator... so InDesign it is!

I am glad I checked this because it turned out that I have gone wrong somewhere. I've realised that for the black outlines I have used registration. Because of the earthy colours in my design I don't really need a rich black so I will edit the swatch to just using the black ink and hopefully it will be ok.

Problem solved!

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My tattoo paper came through the post today so I'm able to print them off. I have just printed off two types, outlines of my original illustrations and some that are coloured. I was going to do a variation with the rusty texture that I've been using but it too long for the printer to process and I only had five sheets of paper, so I didn't want to risk getting it wrong.

I then tested them out on Will and I am really pleased with how well they came out.