Using Registration with Illustrator & InDesign

I inevitably get at least 1 student in NPower’s InDesignclasses who asks about using the “color” Registration. This appears in both Illustrator & InDesign but I always tell students not to use it. It’s for Commercial Printers and they use it to check ink on the page.

OK that’s a little understated and simple, as far as explanations go. If you’re interested in a more in-depth approach, check out this post over at Claudia McCue’s blog. She goes into more detail on what exactly happens when you use Registration and even better, why you shouldn’t use it.

Thanks go out to the folks over at InDesign Secrets for making me aware of this.