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InDesign Print Booklet - High Resolution for Print

Asked by: slegy

I have a 32-page newsletter developed in InDesign CS3. Prior to this, I've been outputting to PDF and then creating the print spreads before sending to the printer. This time I've been experimenting with Print Booklet. The InDesign document contains text and color images which are 300-400 dpi. When output to a press quality PDF is is about 40 mg in size. I need to output in grayscale, 2-up saddle stitch. The process works like a charm but the resulting file is so small I'm sure I've lost the needed resolution for print. Does anyone know how to use this process and create a high-res file?

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by: fibdevPosted on 2009-01-30 at 14:37:32ID: 23513754

what is the output after you drop the colors?

You should also know that the printer would prefer you send them the InDesign package rather than a PDF.  Also, when sending to a printer, your resolution doesn't need to be any higher than 300dpi.

 

by: slegyPosted on 2009-01-30 at 16:09:52ID: 23514321

For the past three years I've developed the newsletters in InDesign, PDF'd the file and then created an InDesign file with the PDFs in printer spread. That seems to be what they most prefer. The printed newsletters are grayscale. I also have to create a version in color for posting on the web - low resolution. For efficiency's sake, I would like to be able to create one version - high resolution color. It's easy to then reduce the resolution in Acrobat for web posting. But I need high-res grayscale, preferably in printer spread, for print. It seems incredible that Print Booklet wouldn't retain the high resolution, but it doesn't appear that it does. The PDF'd press quality file is 40 mg. When I use Print Booklet with conversion to grayscale, it ends up as a 3 mg file - which I'm sure equates to low res (more like 72 dpi than 300 dpi).

 

by: BongSooPosted on 2009-02-02 at 07:24:40ID: 23527674

The only reason a printer would prefer the Indesign file is if they anticipate having to make changes to it. If you can anticipate all of their needs (1/8" bleed for instance, all images and fonts included, etc.), a PDF is now commonplace for file submission.

Depending upon the JPEG compression and how many images you have, 3 meg is not out of the question for high resolution grayscale. Either way you should be able to check the print settings and/or the images in the PDF to see what resolution they are.

 

by: slegyPosted on 2009-02-05 at 08:54:35ID: 31541122

Thank you. I've met with the printer, and we've come to a mutual resolution as to how they want to receive their files. You are correct about making changes, as I've had to send them the InDesign package on a couple of different occasions. The Print Booklet actually does work, but they tell me that a PDF file of all newsletter/yearbook pages is what they would like to work with -- makes life easier for me.

 

by: Darwin_IcesurferPosted on 2010-02-18 at 19:39:32ID: 26608830

The solution to the low resolution files when you use "Print Booklet" is not intuitive.
Files
   >>Print Booklet
      >>  {Setup}.[Print settings]  
         >> {Advanced}.Transparency Flattener Preset = High Resolution

With this change my 40 page brochure went from a 3MB file to a 30MB file. The exported file was bigger yet - about 35MB but the quality of the images were the same as the 30MB file. The 3MB file was very poor

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