Chapter 22: Print Illustrations

Overview

There are basically three possibilities for printing your artwork. The first is to print it yourself on your desktop printer or on one of the increasingly affordable commercial-quality color printers available for the office. The second is to send it to a commercial printer. The third and probably most widely used option is to submit your artwork to someone else for inclusion in a book, brochure, newspaper, magazine, or other publication.

For those of you who will be taking their artwork to a commercial printer or submitting it to someone else for inclusion in a publication, the advice in this chapter boils down to one sentence : Check with your printer or publisher and find out what specifications they have for file types!

If your artwork will be incorporated into a larger publication, someone is probably going to embed it in a file managed with a desktop publishing program such as Quark, InDesign, PageMaker, or even a Microsoft Office application such as Word, PowerPoint, or Publisher. In that instance, you will probably need to export your artwork into a file format accessible to the team managing the publication.