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GRAPHIC DESIGN FOR PRINTING (3 Months) – OIPT-GD101

Categories: CERTIFICATE COURSE
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About Course

This course provides complete training in graphic design specifically for the printing, packaging, signage, and publishing industries. Students learn how to create professional layouts, prepare print-ready files, work with CMYK colours, design using industry-standard software, and handle real jobs from concept to final output. The course blends creativity with technical precision, ensuring students become fully job-ready designers capable of working in a printing press or design studio.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • Understand print production workflows (Offset, Digital, Wide Format, UV)

  • Design clean and professional graphics for real-world printing

  • Prepare error-free print-ready PDFs using CMYK, bleed, margins, and safe zones

  • Master tools for layout, typography, colour correction, vector design, and multi-page publishing

  • Create logos, brochures, visiting cards, posters, banners, packaging labels, wedding cards, and booklets

  • Coordinate with pre-press (CTP), digital press, and binding teams

  • Build a professional design portfolio for employment

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What Will You Learn?

  • Printing industry basics (Offset, Digital, Wide Format, UV)
  • CMYK, RGB, Spot Colour understanding
  • DPI, PPI, bleed, trim, and safe-zone rules
  • Paper sizes (A-series, B-series, DD, DC, DF formats)
  • Design principles: balance, contrast, alignment, hierarchy
  • Typography: kerning, tracking, leading, font pairing
  • Branding essentials for print: logos, colours, layouts
  • CorelDRAW workspace, vectors, shapes, guidelines
  • Logo recreation and vector drawing techniques
  • PowerClip, alignment, transformation tools in CorelDRAW
  • Poster, banner, bill book, brochure design
  • Multi-page CorelDRAW documents and imposition logic
  • Exporting print-ready PDF/X-1a and TIFF files
  • Photoshop photo editing for print
  • Background removal and masking
  • Retouching and old photo restoration
  • CMYK colour correction for accurate print results
  • Large-format image setup for flex and hoarding
  • Sharpening, compositing, and creative artwork
  • Illustrator vector logo design
  • Creating icons and illustrations
  • Drawing box dielines and packaging stickers
  • CMYK-safe vector artwork for labels
  • InDesign master pages and layouts
  • Paragraph and character styles
  • Baseline grid and multi-column layouts
  • Auto page numbering and running headers
  • Booklet, magazine, and newsletter design
  • Exporting press-ready book PDFs
  • Checking client files and fixing errors
  • Ensuring correct size, bleed, resolution, and CMYK
  • Coordinating with CTP, press, and binding teams
  • Preparing live jobs for printing
  • Job card understanding and design workflow
  • Proof checking for colour, alignment, text, and spacing
  • Building a professional portfolio
  • Creating final projects for real-world printing
  • Presenting designs using mockups
  • Preparing for viva and job interviews

Course Content

Chapter 1: Introduction to Printing & Design Basics

  • 1.0 The Printing Industry: A Backbone of Communication
  • 1.1 Types of Printing Technologies
  • 1.2 Paper Sizes and Print Sheet Formats
  • 1.3 Colour Models: RGB, CMYK, and Spot Colour
  • 1.4 Understanding DPI, PPI, Resolution, Raster, and Vector
  • 1.5 Bleed, Trim, Safe Zone, Margins: The Foundation of Print Layout
  • 1.6 Setting Up Files for Printing (Practical Knowledge)
  • 1.7 Common Mistakes of New Designers
  • 1.8 Real-World Workflow in a Printing Press
  • 1.9 Practical Tasks of Week 1
  • 1.10 Why Designers Must Understand Machines
  • 1.11 Conclusion of Chapter 1

CHAPTER 2 – DESIGN PRINCIPLES & TYPOGRAPHY
Design becomes powerful only when creativity and logic merge. A good design is never accidental—it is created using rules, principles, structures, and layout systems that guide the viewer’s eyes smoothly and communicate the message instantly. This chapter builds the artistic foundation required before mastering software tools. Whether the medium is a visiting card, brochure, billboard, book interior, or packaging label, the designer must know how to balance visual elements, arrange type, and create harmony. This chapter focuses on the universal design principles used by professionals worldwide, along with advanced understanding of typography, font selection, hierarchy, spacing, and brand identity systems. These form the heart of effective graphic design.

CHAPTER 3 – COREL DRAW BASICS (WEEK 3)
CorelDRAW is one of the most widely used software in the printing industry across India, including Manipur. Most printing presses depend on CorelDRAW for preparing visiting cards, bill books, flex banners, stickers, brochures, wedding cards, certificates, and thousands of daily design jobs. CorelDRAW is favoured because it is fast, lightweight, print-friendly, and supports both vector and layout construction extremely well. This chapter introduces CorelDRAW from the ground up—covering workspace, tools, vector drawing, shapes, colour, CMYK settings, file creation, and early practical exercises. It is written as a complete beginner-to-professional foundation chapter so that students become confident to design real-world print jobs from Week 3 onwards.

CHAPTER 4 – COREL DRAW INTERMEDIATE (WEEK 4)
Chapter 4 takes students deeper into the real-world workflow of CorelDRAW used daily in printing presses. After learning the basics in Chapter 3, students are now ready to explore intermediate-level tools, layout techniques, and production-oriented features such as PowerClip, alignment mastery, transformation tools, layers, colour styles, gradients, and print layouts used for posters, banners, bill books, and brochures. This chapter aims to shape the student into a fast, confident designer who can complete real client jobs independently. Everything taught here is based on the day-to-day work inside Omega Offset Printers.

CHAPTER 5 – COREL DRAW ADVANCED & PRODUCTION FILES (WEEK 5)
Chapter 5 is where the true production-level power of CorelDRAW is unlocked. By this stage, students already understand CorelDRAW tools, vector drawing, alignment, PowerClip, colour, and layout structure. Now we move to the most important skills needed in any printing press: multi-page document handling, imposition logic, pre-press preparation, colour safety, outline control, font conversion, and professional exporting. This chapter prepares students to produce print-ready files, which is the most critical responsibility of a graphic designer in commercial printing environments like Omega Offset Printers.

CHAPTER 6 – PHOTOSHOP FUNDAMENTALS (WEEK 6)
Photoshop is the world’s most powerful raster image editing software. In the printing industry, Photoshop is the backbone for handling photographs, creating image-based artwork, restoring old images, preparing pictures for brochures, posters, wedding albums, flex banners, labels, and every design that involves photo enhancement. In Omega Offset Printers, Photoshop is used daily alongside CorelDRAW to clean images, prepare CMYK-ready photos, remove backgrounds, correct colours, and export high-resolution assets for print. This chapter covers the core fundamentals of Photoshop needed by every print designer. It begins with the basics and gradually builds the technical foundation for professional image editing for print production.

CHAPTER 7 – ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP FOR PRINT (WEEK 7)
Now that students understand Photoshop fundamentals, Chapter 7 takes them into advanced print-focused workflows used in real commercial environments. This includes professional CMYK colour correction, smart object management, blending modes, compositing, large-format artwork preparation, and creating production-ready images for offset, digital, flex, and UV printing. This chapter transforms students from basic photo editors into expert imaging professionals capable of handling high-end posters, advertisement layouts, wedding album imagery, packaging visuals, and image-heavy print designs used across industries.

CHAPTER 8 – ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR FOR LOGOS & PACKAGING (WEEK 8)
Adobe Illustrator is the world’s most powerful vector-design software. While CorelDRAW is widely used in India for daily print layouts, Illustrator remains the global industry standard for brand identity design, high-end packaging artwork, vector illustration, product labels, technical drawings, and logo creation. Every professional designer must master Illustrator because it produces the cleanest, sharpest, most scalable vectors compatible with all printing technologies: offset, digital, flexo, UV, screen printing, and packaging. This chapter transforms the student into a confident vector designer capable of creating premium logos, precise packaging dielines, icons, illustrations, and print-ready artworks.

CHAPTER 9 – ADOBE INDESIGN FOR LAYOUT DESIGN (WEEK 9)
Adobe InDesign is the world’s most advanced layout and typesetting software. While CorelDRAW and Illustrator are excellent for single-page designs, InDesign is built specifically for multi-page publications, books, magazines, catalogues, annual reports, newspapers, and any text-heavy print project. In professional publishing houses, printing presses, and corporations, InDesign is the central tool for long-form documents. This chapter introduces the fundamentals and intermediate techniques required for creating structured, professional layouts with precision and consistency.

CHAPTER 10 – PUBLISHING & BOOK DESIGN IN INDESIGN (WEEK 10)
Chapter 10 takes students from basic magazine/brochure layouts to the professional world of book publishing, where precision, consistency, typography, and pre-press discipline are mandatory. At this stage, the student is ready to handle complex multi-page documents, manage chapters and sections, organize long-text content, prepare books for offset printing, apply baseline grids, create perfect master pages, and export final imposed PDFs. This chapter teaches book design the same way professional publishing houses and corporate printing presses work.

CHAPTER 11 – REAL PRESS OUTPUT PREPARATION (WEEK 11)
This chapter marks the transition from classroom learning to real printing press production. Up to Chapter 10, students learned software, design rules, typography, image correction, layout creation, packaging basics, and book design. In Chapter 11, they enter the world of actual printing workflow, where time, accuracy, and technical discipline are everything. This is the environment inside a printing press like Omega Offset Printers, where designers must prepare jobs correctly, communicate with CTP technicians, coordinate with machine operators, fix errors in client files, and create production-ready job cards. The work becomes fast, practical, and responsibility-heavy. This chapter trains students to become job-ready designers, capable of handling live production.

CHAPTER 12 – FINAL PROJECTS & PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT (WEEK 12)
Chapter 12 is the final stage of the course. After learning CorelDRAW, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign—and understanding design theory, typography, colour, layout, packaging, and production—students now apply everything to create industry-standard final projects and build a professional portfolio. This chapter ensures students become job-ready designers capable of handling real print work confidently.

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