Printing in Illustrator is similar to printing in some of the other Adobe
programs. If you go to File, Print
or CTRL P on the PC or Command P on the MAC is the shortcut. You have some options up here.
If you go to Marks and Bleeds, you have Printer's Marks. That's if you're sending
it to a printer. They need some of those marks. Color Bars for example.
You can also rotate it if you have it right side up. Portrait orientation,
Landscape, upside down and Landscape the other way.
You can also adjust the number of copies if you want to print a bunch of copies, and also
down here, this is important, the Scaling. Do not Scale. If you want to fit it to page if
for some reason it was larger than the page size that you're printing to, you can
have it fit to page. You can also Tile pages or set some kind of custom width
and height for it. If I, for example, set my mine to just Landscape Orientation
and All Printer's Marks and print it as a PDF which is just a file. It will
come out something like this. So we have the Color Bars there and then we have the
file there as well,
the content of the file and if you have a printer hooked up to your device,
of course you can select a printer here and send a PDF and if you go under Output,
Printer Resolution you can bump up the resolution lines per inch, the dots per inch
if the printer wants you to do that. Also under graphics you can have really
high quality graphics or if you go over to Speed, it's not going to be as high
quality obviously. If you have some layers in Illustrator they're invisible.
You can select it so that all layers are printed or you can send it to only
Visible and Printable Layers, or you could just say only print the layers that are
visible. If something is covered up but it's printable, then it
would only print what's visible. I only have one artboard in this example but
if you have multiple artboards, you can also tell it to just print certain
artboards from the file as well. So instead of printing to PDF, you can also go to
File, Save As of course so if I go to PDF and it gives us a couple of options
here that are similar to some of the options over in printing. There's two ways to save
a PDF. Again, if you go to File, Print. So that's'the basics of printing in Illustrator
and I will see you in the next lesson.