To make optimum decisions about printing, you should understand basic printing principles, including how the resolution of your printer or the calibration and resolution of you monitor can affect the way your artwork appears when printed. Illustrator’s Print dialog box is designed to help you through the printing workflow. Each set of options in the dialog box is organized to guide you through the printing process.

• Basic printing tasks
• Printing color separations
• Setting up pages for printing
• Printer’s marks and bleed
• PostScript printing
• Printing with color management
• Printing gradients, meshes, and color blends
• Printing and saving transparent artwork
• Overprinting
• Trapping
• Print presets