What is Design for print? Studio brief 1..

Brief:

Produce a 'Top ten' manual of things to know, consider or remember in order to produce successful design for print. You should use the seminars and tasks from the modules as a starting point for your own individual/ independent investigation of the methods, processes and formats that can be used to create innovative but practical solutions to print based design briefs and all aspects of print based delivery.


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As a starting point I have thought about the things that I think are important when it comes to printing. As I have not yet been to any seminars about print, this list is only from common sense and basic knowledge.

- Stock:

 You need to know what your going to print onto, paper (if so what sort,  ISO etc), metal, card, wood...

- Type of printer you need to use:

This could be from ink jet printers, laser printers etc

- The costing and your budget:

You will need to know your budget and the costings of what you are going to print, whether its 10 things your taking to print or 10,000

- Pantone:

I think Pantone is really important when it comes to sending things to print, it allows you to be specific on exactly what you want. Pantone is a globally recognised colour system, so that blue you have on your screen is the blue that will be printed if you sent off print to China

- Time:

First thing to do when it comes to printing is to know how long it is going to take. If your designing something for a client to go to print and they have given you 4 weeks, 2 of those weeks maybe how much time the printers need to deliver your designs, which leaves you 2 weeks to design! Timing is everything

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Types of printers:

- Toner based printers
- Liquid inkjet printers
- Solid ink printers
- Dye- sublimation printers
- Ink less printers
- Thermos printers
- UV printers
- Dot matrix printers
- Line printers
- Pen based plotter printer
- Daisy wheel printers

Types of ink: