Output and Export

To print to a b&w or color Post-Script printer

1. Before printing your file choose File > Document Color Mode submenu and choose the correct color mode.

2. Choose File > Print.

3. From the Printer pop-up menu choose from the list of printers your computer is connected to.

4. Click General on the options list on the left side of teh dialog box to display that panel.

5. In the Copies field, enter the desired number of copies.

• In the Media area choose the paper size
• Click the correct Orientation to print vertically or horizontally.

6. In the Options area, from the Print Layers pop-up menu, choose which layers will print:

• Visible & Printable Layers
• Visible Layers
• All Layers

7. Click Do Not Scale to print illustration at its current size; or click Fit to Page to scale to fit current paper size; or click Custom Scale then enter height and width. Click the chain icon to scale proportionally.Unclick it to scale unproportionally.

8. Click Setup on the Options list on the left side of the dialogue box to display that panel.

9. From the Crop Artwork to pop-up menu, choose Artboard.

10. Click a corner or sidepoint on the Placement icon to position the illustration on that corresponding part of the paper; click the center point if you want to recenter the illustration on the paper.

11. Save your settings as a printer preset. Click Done to save the settings without printing.

To print an illustration that's larger than the paper size

1. From the Tiling Pop-up menu inside the settings panel choose:

• Tile Full pages to divide the artwork into whole pages.
• Tile Iimageable Area to divide the artwork into a grid of pages as per the printer media size

2. Click a point on the Placement icon to position the illustration on that corresponding part of the paper. Click the center to reposition to the center.

Or, Click and drag in the preview window to move the illustration manually.

3. To print all the tiled pages, in the General panel, leave the Pages: All button chosen and check Skip Blank PAges to prevent any blank tiled pages from printing. Or, to print select tile pages, click Range, then enter the range of pages in the field, seperated by a hyphen.

4. Choose any other print settings. Click Print to print out pages or click Done to save settings without printing.

To include printer's marks in your printout

1. In the Printer dialog box click Marks & Bleeds on the Options list.

2. Check all Printers Marks to include trim marks, registration marks, col,or bars and page information.

• Check Trim Marks to add thin lines extending from the horizontal andn vertical edges of the illustration's bounding box to indicate where the printout is to be trimmed.
• Registration MArks to add a small circle outside each corner of the bbounding box.
• Page Information to add text label above the top edge of the printout that contains prints specs for the print shop.

3.Choose a printer mark style from the Printer Mark Type pop-upmenu

4. Choose a thickness for trim marks from the Trim Mark Weight pop-upmenu

5. Enter or choose Offset value (0-72pt) for the distance between trim amrks and the bounding box.

The Object> Crop Area command creates nonprinting trim marks. If you use this command, you'll still need to check Trim Marks in the print dialogue box to create trim marks on the actual printout.

To determine how transparency is flattened for export files:

Choose FIle > Document Setup, then choose Transparency from the topmost pop-upmenu. In the Export and Clipboard Transparency Flattener Settings area, choose a preset that saves with the file.

• High Resolution can be used for high quality seprartion printouts and film-based color proofs.
• Medium Resolution can be used for printouts and proofs from desktop PostScript color printers
• Low Resolution can be used for prinouts from black and white desktop printers or for illustrations that will be viewed on the web.

or,

CLick the Custom button. and do one of the following:

Raster /Vector balance.Move the slider to control the percentage of flattened shapes trhat will remain as vectors versus the percentage of shapes that will be rasterized. Raster/Vector Balance settings apply only to "flattened"shapes that represent transparency. vector shapes print cleaner compared to raster images.

Higher values produce a higher percentage of flattened shapes as vectors, though complex flattened areas maybe be rasterized.

Line art and texty: The rasterization process requires resolution settings to determine output quality. . Specify the resolution for line art and text by entering a Line Art and Text Resolution value. As a general rule of thumb, the resolution of line art should equal to twice the screen (lpi) for that output device. The default is 300 pp1. Transparent text is flattened and preserved as text objects. Clipping and masking are used to preserve the look of transparency.

Text that is stroked, filled with pattern or used as a clipping mask will be converted to outlines. When path strokes are converted to outlines, the filled "strokes" may be wider that the original stroke by one or two pixels. To prevent this thickening, move the Raster/Vector Balance slider to 100(far right) or 0 (far left). At 100, all strokes will be converted to outlines and thickening will be uniform; at zero, all objects will be rasterized. For rasterized text, enter a Line Art and Text Resolution value of 600 ppi or higher.