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- [Voiceover] Alright, so as

I was saying in the intro,



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it's easy to think of

printing from Illustrator or



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any other application for that matter,



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as primarily being a function

of going up to the file menu



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and choosing the print command



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and we'll be addressing that command



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in all kinds of detail in future movies.



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But we're going to start by

taking a look at a couple of



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upfront considerations that

are every bit as important



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as that command, starting

with paper color.



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So 99.99 percent of the

time you're going to be



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printing to white paper.



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And that's because white is

theoretically the brightest



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color there is and that way

you're going to be adding



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inks to that paper in order

to darken the paper color



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and by virtue of the fact that

you're starting with white



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you're going to get the

brightest inks possible.



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But let's say for whatever

reason you want to print



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to a colored paper.



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How do you preview that in Illustrator?



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Well the first thing you

want to do is make sure



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your black arrow tool is

selected up here at the top



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of the tool box.



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Then, click on the document

set up button up here



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in the control panel to

bring up the document



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set up dialog box.



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You notice that the second

half of this dialog box



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is devoted to these transparency

and overprint options.



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And their first and

foremost job is to allow you



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to preview the transparent

portions of your artwork.



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And so let's say I go ahead

and change the grid colors



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from light to medium



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and that gives me this

checkerboard pattern right here



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with these light and dark shades of gray.



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At which point I'll go ahead and click OK



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in order to accept that change.



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And then I'll go up to the view menu



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and choose this command right here,



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show transparency grid,



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which is going to replace

everything that's transparent



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inside of my artwork with

that checkerboard pattern.



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And this is just preview by the way.



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Just so you know what's going

on inside of your artwork.



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Notice if I were to go to

the file menu and choose the



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print command then I would

see the artwork previewed here



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against a white paper background.



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So in other words, you're not

really going to be printing



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this transparency grid.



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It's just there to show

you what's going on.



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Alright, I'm going to cancel out.



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Now you might wonder why in the world



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I'm introducing the transparency

grid in the first place



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when that really doesn't

have anything to do



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with colored paper but in fact, it does.



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And so to show you what I mean,



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I'll return to the view menu



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and choose high transparency grid



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to make that thing go away



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and then I'll once again click



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on the document set up button.



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Alright, now notice this

check box right here,



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simulate colored paper.



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That's going to show you

what the artwork looks like



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when it's printed to colored paper.



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But it's up to you to dial in that color



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and you do so by clicking

on this first color swatch,



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not the second one,



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but the first one right there.



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Go ahead and click on

it in order to bring up



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a dialog box that's going to differ



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depending on your platform.



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So right now we're seeing

the Windows version



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of the color dialog box.



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The Macintosh version looks different



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and it gives you different values as well.



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So you're going to have to

play around with these values



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to get whatever results

you're looking for.



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But let's say I'm going to

print to a kind of sepia paper.



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Then I dial in a hue value

of 33 and I'll dial in



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a saturation value of 44, let's say.



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And then I'll go ahead

and crank the lum value,



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the luminosity value, that is,



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up to 200 and then I'll click OK



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in order to accept that color.



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So it's a very light shade

of beige as you can see.



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After which point I'll click OK



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in order to accept that change.



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Now we've got a little

bit of a bug here inside



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this version of Illustrator.



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At any rate, you can see now that



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all of the layer thumbnails

are set against this beige



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background, but we're

not actually previewing



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the effect here inside

the document window.



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In order to update things,

you just need to zoom out



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and then zoom back in like so.



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Now this problem with this preview



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is that it's not accurate.



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What we're seeing is the inks

at their absolute brightest



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even though they're going to

absorb into a colored paper.



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To see what the inks are

really going to look like



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what you have to do is

go up to the view menu



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once again and then choose

this command right there



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overprint preview.



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What that's going to do is

show you how the inks look



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when they're printed on top

of a colored background.



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So as soon as you choose

that command notice



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that the inks darkened.



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And that's because we're

now mixing those inks



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with the paper color.



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The thing is, however,

this is totally a preview.



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Nothing but a preview.



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We're not going to actually

print this color of beige.



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The assumption is that you're

going to load beige paper



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in this case into your printer.



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And so if I were to go to the file menu



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and choose the print command,



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I am seeing the image against

a white paper background



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and that's because that's

the way things always work



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inside the print dialog box.



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So just bear in mind



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that this is nothing more than a preview.



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Also, bear in mind, any

time you're working with



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colored paper, the color

of that paper is going to



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influence the color of your artwork.



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And that's because the inks

end up mixing with the paper



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color and notice the one

thing that we do not have



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is white inside of this artwork.



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And that's because unless

you're printing with



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white ink, which is very rare,



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you're never going to

brighten up the paper color.



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The paper color, generally

speaking, is always going to



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darken your artwork.



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Alright, so that's how

you preview colored paper



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inside of Illustrator.



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Bear in mind that this

is an attribute that



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will be saved along with your document.



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It is only a preview

attribute, once again.



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And for what it's worth,



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if I were to make a recommendation to you,



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it would be that whenever possible,



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print to white paper.



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Because that's going to give you the best



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and brightest inks.