OUGD504/ Design Production, Problem Solving

Task: To find 8 Hidden mistakes in the 'Indesign' document with relation to what we'd learnt in the previous 2 workshops. The mistakes were concerned with the preparation process. (The print job is allowed 5 printing plates).

• Re-linking / The 'tree silhouette' had a 'missing link' signifier. This will cause a major problem for you when it comes to print and will halt your print job especially if the image isn't located, you'd probably have to ring your client and follow this confusion up. With any of your links, you can click on these, & selecting 'Relink' from the drop-down menu, means you can re-establish the link if the image is stored somewhere.

• One of the images had been reduced to 15.8% of its original size, which could be rectified through Photoshop. 'Image Size' > 'Document size' > Width - 15.8. Saving and re-opening the image will automatically update the scale of this image... Moving to the bottom of the link information should show 'Scale 100%'

• There was an RGB colour (that was still nevertheless in the gamut range) in the swatches, to rectify this you simply have to go to 'Swatch options' and change the colour mode to RGB.

• Applied registration colour to the black text on the last page, using the separations window will notify you that your 'Inappropriately using the registration colour' You'll notice that the text looks slightly wider than the 'black' swatch.

• Unused spot colours in your swatch palette...

• Using the links palette you can click through your components and review the information, we did this and realised that the 5th bird had 72 dots per inch (PPI). From 200 dots to 300, you could probably get away with, however because the dots per inch are so low, the resolution would suffer too significantly. 

• A very easy mistake/ One of the images was in RGB as oppose to CMYK, possibly done because the creator has forgotten to change the file type before saving it as a tiff. The background was out of the CMYK gamut range. We rectified this by converting the file type through Photoshop. The RGB image stood out simply because it looked sharper and more vivid than the others, a common trait of RGB when compared to CMYK.

• There was a 'bleed' set up appropriately, however the document wasn't fitting to the bleed...

*** Remember to always keep your fonts packaged, otherwise you might end up having to find a substitute font, 'CMD > ALT > SHIFT > P' = shortcut to access 'Package' options, consisting of the 'Links & Images' 'Colours & Inks' etc.