Printer's Marks And Bleed - Adobe ILLUSTRATOR CS2 User Manual

To create crop marks around an object
Select the object.
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2 Choose Filter > Create > Crop Marks.
To use Japanese-style crop marks
Japanese-style crop marks have double lines, which visually define a default bleed value of 8.5 points (3 millimeters).
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or Illustrator > Preferences > General (Mac OS).
Select Use Japanese Crop Marks, and then click OK.
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Printer's marks and bleed

About printer's marks
When you prepare artwork for printing, a number of marks are needed for the printer device to register the artwork
elements precisely and verify correct color. You can add the following kinds of printer's marks to your artwork:
Fine (hairline) horizontal and vertical rules that define where the page should be trimmed. Trim marks
Trim Marks
can also help register (align) one color separation to another.
Small targets outside the page area for aligning the different separations in a color document.
Registration Marks
Small squares of color representing the CMYK inks and tints of gray (in 10% increments). Your service
Color Bars
provider uses these marks to adjust ink density on the printing press.
Labels the film with the name of the file, the time and date of printout, the line screen used, the
Page Information
screen angle for the separation, and the color of each particular plate. These labels appear at the tops of the images.
A B C
E F
Printer's marks
A. Star target (not optional) B. Registration mark C. Page information D. Trim marks E. Color bar F. Tint bar
To add printer's marks
Choose File > Print.
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2 Select Marks & Bleed on the left side of the Print dialog box.
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