If you look on the spine of a newspaper you’ll probably see the letters CMYK, or possibly little squares or circles printed of those colours. This works by printing the four process colours, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK (hence CMYK) in a close arrangement of tiny dots in combinations that can simulate millions of different colours. The majority of all commercially printed work is printed using Four Colour Process (alternatively called Four Colour, CMYK, Full Colour, Process Colour). As before, this should not be the case for these images.

Later on you’ll learn how to modify images in a way that ensures InDesign can keep track of them, but for now, all you need to know is that if an image has been modified without InDesign knowing, there will be a yellow exclamation mark icon in the status column next to it. The other preliminary thing to check with the links is to make sure that they haven’t been modified since they were placed into InDesign. The first document you’ll prepare for print has essentially no problems with it, but you’ll work through it to get used to some of the different concepts, terminology and areas of InDesign that you’ll need to become familiar with. How to check if bleeds are used and how to set them up

How to check images that have been modified You’ll work through a series of documents, each of which will help demonstrate some different things to be aware of when you’re sending a document to be printed. You’ll need a CC version of InDesign to work through the exercises - if you don’t have it, you can download a 7 day free trial version from.

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