Ninth Entry- Production of Static Product

Hello Everyone! Welcome to my ninth entry and are you excited to start our lesson today. So today we will emphasizes on Production of Static Product, which generally covers the creation of pamphlets, brochure, bunting, banners and so on. Since we have covered the digital imaging and their process of making it, so this entry will show the end / final product of your work. Excited enough? Let’s the lesson begins!

Step 1: CMYK Mode

The first rule for creating any printing file is to start it with a CMYK mode. This is one important step that is often overlooked by designers. It is advisable to start learning colour mixing with basic CMYK.

Step 2: Actual size 

Illustrator allows the designers to create the design file in different measurements such as:

• Points
• Picas
• Inches
• Millimeters
• Centimeters
• Pixels

 For example, the bunting size is 15 Feet x 3 Feet so the actual size for this artwork would be 180 Inches x 36 Inches.

Step 3: PPI setting

Since banner and bunting is viewed at a distance away, the dots per inch (ppi) can be set at lower value as contrary to the one that you will normally setup in a magazine, which is 300 ppi.

Therefore, it always a good idea to set it at the range between 100 and 150 ppi to be safe and to preserves it clarity in printings.

Step 4: Save in JPEG

One of the most crucial reasons to flatten your design works is it greatly reduce your file size. Everyone loves having a small size as it makes:

1. sending it through email possible and can be done swiftly
2. loading file on older computers a lot faster without too much problems
3. less likely to have printer pooling error

Step 5: Ready to be print

Now everything is ready and all that left to do is to send this to your printing supplier for printing. Do leave your comments whether you think this is useful or vice versa.

Different sizes of banners available

Different types of pamphlets designs

Different types of posters 

Are you interested already? I hope you do. So that’s basically the examples of creating and making posters, pamphlets, bunting and banners. For the last entry, I’m going to explain on process and technology in of visual printing, types and techniques in digital printing. Till then, I do hope you gain something from my blog. Together we gain the same knowledge and shared with the others too. Thank you and keep fighting!