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Printing
Last updated 10/4/2014
PDF/X, an ISO standard for graphic content exchange that eliminates many of the color, font, and trapping variables
that lead to printing problems.
A high-resolution composite PDF workflow typically includes a PostScript 3 output device whose RIP supports in-RIP
separations. Therefore, if your output device uses PostScript Level 2 or does not support in-RIP separations, use a
preseparated PostScript printing workflow.
Checking your document before exporting
Before creating a PDF for a service provider, make sure that the InDesign document meets your service provider’s
specifications. The following list offers some recommendations:
Use the InDesign Preflight feature to ensure that image resolution and color spaces are correct, that fonts are
available and can be embedded, that graphics are up-to-date, and so on.
View your Adobe PDF export settings before exporting, and then adjust them as necessary. The Summary area
includes a warning section that indicates when preset settings can’t be honored.
If your artwork contains transparency (including overprints and drop shadows) and you require high-resolution
output, its a good idea to preview the effects of flattening using the Flattener Preview panel before saving the file.
If your artwork contains transparency, ask your prepress service provider if they want to receive flattened or
unflattened PDF files. Flattening is performed as late in the workflow as possible, preferably by the service provider.
However, if your service provider wants you to flatten transparency, submit a PDF/X-1a compliant file.
If your document is going to be separated, you can preview the separations and ink coverage limits using the
Separations Preview panel.
Use only high-resolution images in your document.
For best results, use only CMYK images in a four-color-process job. Alternatively, you can choose to convert RGB
images to CMYK in the Export Adobe PDF dialog box (Output category).
You can exclude hidden or nonprinting layers from the exported PDF document. (See Choose which layers are
printed or exported to PDF.)
For detailed information about preparing InDesign documents for high-resolution PDF output, see the Adobe
InDesign CS Printing Guide for Prepress Service Providers.
PDF pass-through printing
PDF Print Engine printer manufactures release new drivers based on Adobe PDFDriver SDK which have the
capabilities of handling PDF in the pass-through mode. When such a printer is selected via InDesign, its PPD can
indicate that it is a PDF printer (depends on the Printer manufacturer).
Since InDesign can generate a high-quality PDF via PDF export, printing to a PDF printer leverages that functionality,
and this high quality PDF is passed on to the printer, rather than via intermediate postscript route. In general, print
quality from applications through PDF Driver is equivalent to (or better than) PostScript printing. PDF printing
through the Adobe PDF printer also supports live transparency and ICC color management. At InDesign print dialog,
options related to Color Management, Color Separation, and Graphics options are disabled because all the color
management operations are done on the device for better quality printout.
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