Creative Tip: From Design Into Print. Book or Podcast.
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Over the last few weeks we’ve been getting a lot of questions about printing, and prepress in our weekly InDesign classes.
For an understanding of the issues involved in reproducing your digital designs on old-fangled ink and paper, I highly recommend a newly updated book by Sandee Cohen:
Book: From Design Into Print
This book reads like a visual quickstart guide for professional printing, and does the best job I’ve seen of boiling down complex printing issues into a friendly, readable guide.
Web: From Design Into Print Blog.
iTunes: From Design Into Print Podcast.
For even more printing wisdom, check out Sandee’s related blog and podcast. The podcast in particular is a hoot.
Source: I’m working on enticing Sandee out to Seattle sometime this fall to lead a course on preparing digital files for professional printing for our worldwide audience. Interested in that? Leave a comment below if you’d like to see us offer an online course covering prepress and printing issues!
June 14th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Anyone interested in a free online “From Design into Print” course? If I can drum up enough interest, we might be able to entice Sandee to fly out to Seattle for one of our worldwide online classes!
June 14th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Always interested in a Creative Techs course! Yay Sandee!
June 14th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
If it is as good as CreativeTechs other courses it would be unmissable, especially with someone of Sandee Cohen’s calibre leading it!
June 15th, 2009 at 5:05 am
I would be all over a “Design to Print” course! I have a few of Sandee’s books and love the straight forward, easy to understand language and visuals. I always go there first – even before an internet search – when I need help!
June 15th, 2009 at 5:10 am
I would be so appreciative of a “Design to Print” course. I know there is a lot to the topic, and my life would be so much simpler if I understood it better. Please, pleeezzze, pleeeeeeeezzzzzzze?
June 15th, 2009 at 5:16 am
I would love a “Design to Print” course. Right now the whole subject is confusing to me after getting bits and pieces from various sources.
June 15th, 2009 at 5:16 am
A Design to Print webinar would be fabulous! I’m fairly new to InDesign (from Quark) and feel like I need to know the in’s & out’s of InDesign to print. Pretty please!!
June 15th, 2009 at 5:23 am
Yes! Very interested in another terrific CreativeTechs course…if Sandee can explain complex pre-press and make it user-friendly, that would be great.
June 15th, 2009 at 5:25 am
Yes. And, yes! Getting real-life (and real detailed) info on how to get those great designs “out of the computer” and onto paper would be really fantastic. There still are a few of us out here who continue to work in the “old-fangled” world of print!
June 15th, 2009 at 5:26 am
YES! I am one of those rare people who still prints newspaper. Design to Print webinar would be so welcome.
June 15th, 2009 at 5:31 am
YeS! PLEASE. I’m very interested.
June 15th, 2009 at 5:39 am
I would definitely be interested in design to print course. Thanks!
June 15th, 2009 at 6:00 am
Please…..I would love to see this!
June 15th, 2009 at 6:13 am
REally Really Interested!!!
June 15th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Yes . . . I am already starting my list of questions!
June 15th, 2009 at 6:27 am
I’m very interested. I’ve not read her books yet but I’m thankful that you’ve put her on my radar. I would love to know more – printing issues are always made better with experience and I would love to learn from the best. Thanks
June 15th, 2009 at 6:31 am
Yes, yes, yes!
June 15th, 2009 at 6:42 am
Yes please! Print can be tricky and learning to navigate that with Sandee Cohen and Creative Techs would be most welcome!
June 15th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Absolutely yes! I teach Photoshop but use it primarily for web graphics, and when I get to the chapters about print, I feel much less confident that I really know what I’m talking about. A “From Design to Print” webinar would be wonderful!
June 15th, 2009 at 7:37 am
Yes please! That would be fabulous!!!!
June 15th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Yes, please!
June 15th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Yes it would be great to have not just one but a series of Design to Print webinars.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Always looking to tweak the 3800, profiles, calibrations, and how to get the most out of paper. This would be highly welcomed.
June 15th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
“Absolutely!” She enthusiastically replied!
June 15th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
“Sounds worthwhile to me!” he agreed.
June 15th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Hi there,
I would be very interested in a Webinar on the subject of Design into Print! I teach Design and Visual Communications at a vocational high school, and could see very relevant info being taught – especially by such a great teacher as Sandee Cohen -
June 15th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I think this is a fantastic idea! Yes, yes, yes!
June 15th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Would love to participate in a class like this!
June 15th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Yes, please – I’d love to attend a design into print course or workshop!
June 15th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Yes I would be very much interested in this course.
June 15th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Yes! Great idea! Would love it!
June 15th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Absolutely! I would take a course with Sandee on anything!
June 15th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Count me in! – I have needed this knowledge for local printing but now I’m also looking at having things printed out of China but I have no way of knowing the best way to prepare and send things.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:41 am
That would be wonderful. Sandee, CreativeTechs, and InDesign… what a combo!
June 16th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Sounds great. Since we had to fire our employee for theft I have been helping out at my husband’s printing business and need more training. BTW, I keep amazing him with the stuff I am learning from the Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator webinars. Pretty cool considering he has been in the business for 33 years.
June 18th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Yes, yes, yes!
June 18th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
sure am!
June 20th, 2009 at 4:15 am
Great idea. This class would be very useful.
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:56 pm
I’d love if this included really entry level info about preparing design for print.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
yes please~~~
July 6th, 2009 at 7:43 am
Sign me up! some of the most frustrating issues are with…printing!!