PRNT 141 - Illustrator Print Production

• Demonstrate understanding of object-oriented production illustration concepts. (Production Illustration Overview)
• Become familiar with Adobe Illustrator’s workspace and views. (Production Illustration Overview)
• Produce technically proficient vector illustrations for efficient, reliable print output. (Vector Illustration Tools)
• Demonstrate technical competence using vector illustration production tools. (Vector Illustration Tools)
• Create vector objects using pen tool paths, anchor points, direction lines, and direction points. (Vector Illustration Tools)
• Demonstrate an understanding of why color separation is necessary for printing on press. (Color Separation)
• Produce and print CMYK process separations. (Color Separation)
• Produce files with spot color used appropriately. (Spot Color Illustration)
• Recognize when spot colors can be converted to process colors. (Spot Color Illustration)
• Fix problematic spot color illustrations. (Spot Color Illustration)
• Print spot color separations.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how a color managed print workflow can produce consistent, predictable color output. (Color Management)
• Choose appropriate color settings for a color managed workflow and load color profiles for multiple output devices and print processes. (Color Management)
• Demonstrate the understanding of the problems that blends, gradients, and gradient meshes can cause in the printing process. (Blends and Gradients)
• Produce printable blends, gradients, and meshes. (Blends and Gradients)
• Calculate and produce the correct number of blend steps, based on printing process requirements. (Blends and Gradients)
• Demonstrate an understanding how transparency effects can be produced. (Transparency Flattening)
• Demonstrate an understanding of why transparency must be flattened for the printing process. (Transparency Flattening)
• Produce illustrations using appropriate transparency flattener settings for high quality, efficient print output. (Transparency Flattening)
• Demonstrate an understanding of the raster settings in Illustrator and how raster effects can affect raster image processing speed and print output quality. (Raster Effects)
• Produce illustrations using raster effects appropriately. (Raster Effects)
• Demonstrate understanding of the need to process complex illustrations to produce simplified files that can be efficiently ripped and reliably printed. (Simplifying Illustrations)
• Demonstrate competence by cleaning-up, simplifying, and expanding objects to reduce illustration complexity. (Simplifying Illustrations)
• Demonstrate understanding of why transformations are necessary to compensate for the flexographic printing process. (Flexo Transforms)
• Calculate the required flexography transforms. (Flexo Transforms)
• Apply necessary transformations in Illustrator. (Flexo Transforms)
• Produce files with embedded and linked graphics. (Import)
• Explain the differences between placing and opening, linking, and embedding. (Import)
• Produce Illustrator eps and Adobe pdf files for various print production workflows. (Export)
• Save files appropriately for use in Quark Press, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Photoshop. (Export)
• Produce print-ready pdf files for output from Adobe Acrobat. (Export)
• Demonstrate an understanding of why trapping is necessary for printing on press. (Trapping)
• Demonstrate technical competence using pathfinder and overprints for trapping. (Trapping)
• Produce and print correctly trapped spot color and CMYK separations. (Trapping)
• Demonstrate an understanding of how presets can streamline the print production workflow. (Presets)
• Produce and distribute print presets, pdf presets, flattener presets, and color settings. (Presets)
• Examine, repair, and clean-up problematic vector illustration files for a print production workflow. (Preflight)
• Check color settings, trapping, raster effects, flattener settings, print output options, and Adobe pdf settings. (Preflight)

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