From Design Into Print

The Great Resolution Report. A five-part podcast guaranteed to explain everything you ever needed to know about resolution, pixels, downsampling, upsampling, and other pixel puzzles. This podcast was never continued. But the information is still VERY active. Part One: How Big is a Pixel? The answer is not as simple as some people want. Great […]

You’ve read her comments! You’ve seen her posts on the bog! Now you can listen to PJ Cassel, our own in-house printer expert. In this week’s podcast, PJ Cassel, a real-life, working print shop employee gives us the inside scoop on how things have changed in the printing industry as well as a real-life nightmare […]

Sending your precious file off to the print shop is like sending your child to summer camp. How should you label your file to keep it separate from the others? How can you keep the file size down? And what’s the best way to pack the file for the long trip. Sending Files

Sandee tries to explain the very basics of trapping on a beginner’s level. However, she is constantly interrupted by an unwelcome guest. Hopefully you’ll get the message about whether or not you should try trapping yourself. trapping

What does dot gain have to do with paper towels? It’s pretty clear once you listen to Sandee’s explanation of the setting in Photoshop for converting grayscale images. Dot Gain

Do you know what Rich Black is? No, he’s not your friend from high school. It’s the term used for creating a combination of four process colors to create a richer appearance for black areas. Listen as Sandee gives her favorite recipes for flat black, rich black, rich cool black, and rich warm black. And […]

At the risk of sending the entire room into a fit of the giggles, Sandee tackles the important topic of hickeys in printing. What are hickeys? What causes them? And what should you, as a designer, do about them. Hickeys in print

What is linescreen? If you don’t know about linescreen, you might think it is one of those geeky computer terms. But linescreen (LPI) has been around far longer than computer graphics. This episode explains what linescreen in all about. And you get the inside scoop on Sandee and Frankie Avalon.

So maybe you’ve heard someone say you need to set the “bleed” for your design. What does that mean? Why do you need to do it? How do you set a bleed? And what design considerations do you have to remember? Also, what’s the story of cropping photos that might have to bleed? In this […]

Attack of the PostScript Clones Looking for a printing machine? Wondering what the difference is between True Adobe ® PostScript and a PostScript Clone. And what does Obi Wan Kenobi have to do with any of this? The third podcast episode is up and ready for your listening pleasure.

Sandee explains what illegal colors are; how you can see them; and better still why you don't want them in your layout

The first episode What are spot colors? How are they different from process colors? Where can you see them? And what’s the story with Pantone?

fdip11 If you can download this, you are listening to the very first podcast of From Design Into Print.