In-house printing with MS Publisher

Course Objective

If you are thinking of preparing and printing your own stationary in house for your company, organisation, and club or just for your own personal use, then this is the ideal course for you.

During the course you will learn how to design, layout and print standard business publications like business cards, letterheads, newsletters, posters, fliers, emails and signs using MS Publisher. You will learn how to prepare these publications for printing on a local printer (in-house).

We will also give you guidance on how best to simply prepare your publications for commercial printing should you ever choose that option.

Course Programme

• An overview of publication layouts (DTP)
• An introduction to the MS Publisher screen
• Paper, printers and pages
• Page Sizes and Layouts - Booklets, cards, banners, posters, calendars, newsletters, emails
• Adding Content
• Working with Boxes - Inserting, moving, sizing, editing and formatting boxes, columns and boxes
• Working with Shapes - Building an advertisement, using shapes to enhance your layout
• Using MS Publishers Design Gallery - Inserting design gallery objects, adding your own objects to the gallery
• Using MS Publisher Wizards - Print & email wizards, colour & font schemes
• Printing locally - Using your own printer, managing colour and images
• Preparing for Commercial Printing - Creating PDF files (2007)

Course Pre-requisites
Participants on this course should have a basic day to day working knowledge of a PC using email, internet and word processing applications.

Location: Irish Times Training, The Irish Times Building, 24 - 28 Tara Street, Dublin 2