Summary

When printing from InDesign, you have many options to choose from to control exactly how your document prints. The right options will depend on the document's contents and the output device you're using.

Be sure to define your colors as process colors unless you want them to print on their own plates. Although InDesign will let you convert all colors to process colors when you print, there are times when you want some colors to print on their own plate (these are called spot colors ) and others to be converted to process, and the only way to make that happen is to define colors as process or as spot in the first place.

InDesign's transparency options let you control how overlapping objects print, as well as how those overlapping areas are handled during output to ensure both quality reproduction and speedy processing.