Archive for August, 2005

Program Quirkes: Indesign CS

Saturday, August 27th, 2005

I have this thing that absolutely drives me nuts about Indesign CS. Part of my job is to setup envelopes with indicias. An indicia, according to Rockwell Printing’s Graphic Arts Dictionary, is the “…printing on the upper right corner of an envelope-usually the postage-paid notice or a box for placement of a stamp.”
Ok, so here […]

Photoshop Podcast

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

I recently started listening to podcasts and I am happy to find that there are some geared towards Graphic Design. I found news today at Photoshop Support that David Biedny has a Photoshop related Podcast called Attention Photoshoppers!
I will definitely be downloading this to listen to on my rides to work and home.
I have to […]

Print Term: Color Registration

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

Where I work, we deal with a lot of four color printing jobs. The system that we use involves a negative being burned onto a plate, for each of the four colors. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. This printing is referred to as CMYK printing. It is then up to the pressperson to “register” or […]