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Chapter 13: Printing

To make optimum decisions about printing, you should understand basic printing principles, including how the

resolution of your printer or the calibration and resolution of you monitor can affect the way your artwork appears

when printed. Illustrator’s Print dialog box is designed to help you through the printing workflow. Each set of options

in the dialog box is organized to guide you through the printing process.

Basic printing tasks

Print a composite of artwork

A composite is a single-page version of artwork that corresponds to what you see in the illustration window—in

other words, a straightforward print job. Composites are also useful for proofing the overall page design, verifying

image resolution, and identifying problems that may occur on an imagesetter (such as PostScript errors).

1 Choose File > Print.

Select a printer from the Printer menu. To print to a file instead of a printer, select Adobe PostScript® File or Adobe PDF.

3 Select Output on the left side of the Print dialog box, and make sure that Mode is set to Composite.

4 Set additional printing options.

5 Click Print.

If your document uses layers, you can specify which ones to print. Choose File > Print, and select an option from the

Print Layers menu: Visible And Printable Layers, Visible Layers, or All Layers. You can also specify specific areas to

print by using crop areas. For a video on creating crop areas for print, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0213.

See also

“Print dialog box options” on page 402

“Create, edit, and delete crop areas” on page 38

“Printing gradients, meshes, and color blends” on page 414

“Printing long, complex paths” on page 411

“Printing and saving transparent artwork” on page 417

Make artwork nonprintable

The Layers panel makes it easy to print different versions of your artwork. For example, you can choose to print only

the type objects in a document in order to proof your text. You can also add nonprinting elements to artwork to

record important information.

• To prevent artwork from displaying in the document window, printing, and exporting, hide the corresponding

items in the Layers panel.

• To prevent artwork from printing, but not from showing on the artboard or exporting, double-click a layer name

in the Layers panel. In the Layer Options dialog box, deselect the Print option, and click OK. The layer name

changes to italics in the Layers panel.

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