Adding trim marks with tiled printing

Hi,
I'm trying to print a large sized document to tile, but I'd like each page printed to have a boxed border around it (trim marks) instead of just the small "+" in each corner. Is this possible? I have searched online over and over and can't seem to figure it out! I've tried all the options I can find in Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro.
Thanks!

The only automatic marks you get when tiling are the ones you've seen. Anything else would need to be added manually -- a real challenge to get right on a tiled piece.

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If anyone can help me with this issue I've been having I would greatly appreciate it!
I created a document in Illustrator which has 2 artboards, each 5 x 7 with a .125 bleed and trim marks (that I created once I saved it as a PDF)
Now, when I print the file in Illustrator, it prints normally- as two 5x7 artboards with trim marks and everything. When I try to save it as a PDF in Acrobat and print it from there, it prints the two artboards with trim marks but they have been downsized to 4 x 6. Adobe asks me on the phone today..."how do you know they are not printing as 5 x 7" Well, because I measured it.
What I did figure out is that it is definitely the trim marks that are causing the problem because as soon as I remove them, it prints true to size.
Anyways I need to print everything in PDF form so I can send it to my clients, so they can open the PDF and easily print it with the trim marks for easy cutting.
Adobe says it COULD be a problem with a printer setting, but Epson is saying there is nothing else I can do as far as the printing set up goes. I have an Epson Stylus Pro 3880 if this helps. So apparently I'm doing something wrong in Illustrator or Acrobat.
Has anyone else had this issue?

Create the trim marks in Illustrator, not Acrobat. In Illustrator, create an invisible holding line around the artboard ( i.e., no fill, no stroke @ 5x7 size > then lock it in place ). Make sure no elements fall outside the 5x7 size.

Trim Marks Won't Print in Illustrator CS 3

Even though I checkmark Print > Marks & Bleed > Trim Marks they still don't print. I set Type > Roman and Weight > .5pt. Does anybody have any suggestions so I can get these to print?

Yes, to overisized, thanks. In fact I just created a landscape document 8.5 x 11 and simply drew a 5.5 x 8.5 rectangle, then Object > Crop Area > Make and tried to print it as above. Even though the Crop marks are clearly visible and well within the document's boundaries they would not print. In fact, with just those crop marks on the document, when I try to print, I get a Print error: The pages selected to print are all blank. So I drew an object and just the object printed, no crop marks.
Some variable somewhere has gotten reset as I've never had this problem in the past. Can someone please help?

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I've just ordered Distiller for Solaris Unix for our publishing system. We've been using a 10-year old version for years. The question I have would pertain to the Windows version of Distiller I have as well. I just want to know if there's any way in Distiller to add trim marks to the generated PDFs. I know it's available in Acrobat itself, but, isn't there a way to make finished, print-ready PDFs in Distiller without having to open them up in Acrobat?
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Peter

Thanks, Aandi. Well, this is a bit depressing. I have a product called Onevision Asura on Windows. It's able to create PDFs with trims. But, our company publishing system is on Unix. I'm just now buying the latest version of Distiller for them. I'd thought that the newest Distillers were able to create trims. How can a product claim to make print-ready files if it can't even put in trims? This means that I have to take the finished PDF from Unix and put it through my Windows Asura. The Unix geeks will freak.
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Inverted Trim Marks in the Print Dialog

There is an option for regular trim marks, but no option for inverted trim marks.

Yes. Click the More Options button in the Print dialog and you'll be able
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Trim Marks Not Printing from Acrobat 9 Pro

I work at an envelope printing company, and we have recently
upgraded my computer (Windows XP Pro SP 3) to Creative Suite 4.
When I try to print a customer's PDF file with trim marks to show
our typesetting department how to place the art, the trim marks
don't print. I have tried every option I can find in the Advanced
section of the Print dialog box. What worked for Acrobat 8 doesn't
work for me anymore. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks for your help!

Hello,
I'm sorry I'm not able to address your question. These forums
are specific to the
Acrobat.com website and its set of hosted services, and do
not cover the Acrobat family of desktop products.
Any questions related to the Acrobat family of desktop
products would be best suited in the Acrobat User Forums:
Link to
Acrobat Forums
Thanks!
Michelle

Trouble with Crop and Trim Marks in Illustrator CS3

Hi,
I'm creating a print document (in Illustrator CS3, using Windows Vista) and sending to a professional printer who requires trim marks. I've created my document so that there is 0.125" trim area on all sides to bleed. Here is what I'm doing to create trim marks:
Artboard is set at desired print size (5.5"x8.5") + 1/8" trim= 5.75"x8.75"
Object>Crop Area>Make This give me crop marks at the edge of my artboard
then I do
Object>Crop Area>Release This allows me to change my crop marks to my desired, 0.125" size
Then i do
Filter>Create>Crop Marks This shows me my crop marks exactly where I want them in a red retangle
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Press Quality
Marks and Bleeds: I select the "Trim Marks" box to print the trim marks
If I tell it to show bleeds, it only shows up on the top and bottom, not left and right, even though there is "0.125" in all fields.
(Although these have only showed up for me once, I cannot get it to show up again)
When I select "Save" and then view the file, the trim marks are there, but not were I specified them to be. They show up at the edge of the artboard.
When I change the Artboard to letter size (8.5x11), THEN the crop marks show up where they're supposed to be. Why is this happening???
Any thoughts?? Thank you!

I can get crop marks by using the "Print" menu and printing to PDF. My question is: How do you handle bleeds when printing crop marks in the "Save" or "Print" stage? Aren't the crop marks placed at the file extents?

Trim Mark problem. CS5 Any suggestions?

I am setting out A4 front and back covers as one piece of (A3+bleed) artwork to be reproduced by digital printing. After printing, the covers will be trimmed on four sides then wire bound.
I set up artwork with covers side by side with 10mm in centre to allow 5mm trim for each spine. My problem is that Illustrator CS5 adds trims on the proof which do not include a facility to specify centrefold trims or even a centreline. AI assumes all artwork will be an single rectangle and only puts trims on the four corners.
I can create two covers as two separate pieces of artwork with suitable bleed and trims, but then I must proof front and back separately and the printer must re-position each cover side by side arranging trims with his pre-press software. That is inefficient.
I simply want to hand over a facsimile proof and a complete .pdf fiIe with correct trims. I tried drawing the spine trims I required, but AI ignored them for proofing, even with the desk top enlarged to accommodate the trim marks. The Print dialogue box trims take priority. Has Adobe missed a trick here or am I overlooking a set-up requirement?
I considered taking the artwork into InDesign but ID also treats my artwork as one page with or without a centrefold, according to how I specify the pages.
But for the fold facility, the ID Print dialogue behaves the same as AI, as you might expect.
Can anyone offer suggestions other than the separate artwork option I have described?

Dear TerraAustralis,
I work in CS5 and I am trying to create trim marks so that I can manually adjust it after and create more of them since I have a multiple itmes to trim.
I get an error message when I try to create the mark:
I have a rectangle with or with stroke or fill (it does the same error), I selct Object-Trim marks
and I get this: <The filter cannot complete because of an unknown error>
NESS
what can I do to be able to edit the marks without making them all manually like before...
since the Crop marks command does not allow us to manipulate the marks?
Thank you in advance for your help.
cc

Trim Mark Problem. AI & ID CS5. Any Suggestions?

I am setting out A4 front and back covers as one piece of (A3+bleed) artwork to be reproduced by digital printing. After printing, the covers will be trimmed on four sides then wire bound.
I set up artwork with covers side by side with 10mm in centre to allow 5mm trim for each spine. My problem is that Illustrator CS5 adds trims on the proof which do not include a facility to specify centrefold trims or even a centreline. AI assumes all artwork will be an single rectangle and only puts trims on the four corners.
I can create two covers as two separate pieces of artwork with suitable bleed and trims, but then I must proof front and back separately and the printer must re-position each cover side by side arranging trims with his pre-press software. That is inefficient.
I simply want to hand over a facsimile proof and a complete .pdf fiIe with correct trims. I tried drawing the spine trims I required, but AI ignored them for proofing, even with the desk top enlarged to accommodate the trim marks. The Print dialogue box trims take priority. Has Adobe missed a trick here or am I overlooking a set-up requirement?
I considered taking the artwork into InDesign but ID also treats my artwork as one page with or without a centrefold, according to how I specify the pages.
But for the fold facility, the ID Print dialogue behaves the same as AI, as you might expect.
Can anyone offer suggestions other than the separate artwork option I have described?

TerraAustralis wrote:
I can create two covers as two separate pieces of artwork with suitable bleed and trims, but then I must proof front and back separately and the printer must re-position each cover side by side arranging trims with his pre-press software. That is inefficient.
Have you asked your printer about this? I'm a printer and if you gave me a file laid up on a page with your trim marks from Illustrator the first thing I'd do it place it in Indesign to strip them off and give me individual pages so I could impose it with my pre press software!
Check first...Adobe hasn't missed a trick, it's how the printing world expects it's files.

Trim marks??

When I've been working on a brochure lately, all I've done is use the content rectangle (little box with X inside of it until you place a graphic or text, I'm a newb) and place whatever I want in it and pull it roughly a little less than 1/8th an inch beyond the original dimensions of the document (bleeding for the printer) first of all, am I doing this right?
Secondly, do I need to place any kind of trim marks for the printer? I don't even know if InDesign has an option to place them but if they are necessary for the printer, how do I create them?

Wow, a lot to take in. I'll look into that book, lately I've just been learning by what you guys tell me and youtube tutorials. What's sad is that I actually just walked away in december with an associate's degree in graphic design and all I really learned was how to use the lasso tool in photoshop and paste into other adobe programs, bout it. I'm trying to revamp everything I've learned and teach myself because it's taking me days at a time to finish one brochure, it's awful.
So let me see if I have this right, just work on the brochure and then let the document setup do the rest and do bleed about 1/8th an inch or so and then do the crop/trim marks about .15 further than the edge of the bleed? As far as the fold marks, I'm not so sure about that but I'll try to play around with it, maybe do it the same as the crop/trim marks. And then export to PDF? BTW, just out of curiousity why do we export to PDF? Does it retain quality better than the original .indd format?
Thanks again for your help guys!

Printing with trim marks AND elements outside of the artboard

hello, i am using Illustrator CS3. lets say i have a 4x6" artboard with my artwork contained in that space. i also have an adkey just outside my artboard. My goal is to be able to print both the trim marks (equal to my artboard size, 4x6) and my adkey. I cannot get the adkey to print by chaging the bleed settings, since i cant go over 1" bleed. i cant make my artboard bigger, since the trim marks wouldn't be 4x6 anymore. And i dont want to have to put trim marks by hand, since it is too time consuming.
can anyone help?
thank you.

Yes, pretty much the only solution is to work on a larger artboard and use the crop mark filter. Personally, if I find myself having to work to a net size document, I slap it into Indesign and proof it out from there.
Yours
Vern

Why are trim marks not printing correctly in Acrobat 9?

I just upgraded from Acrobat Pro 7 to Acrobat Pro 9. In 7 when I had a document with bleed I could indicate that I wanted trim marks and they would print and I could see where the page would be trimmed. In 9 no matter what I do it puts the trim marks on the media edge not the trim edge. To test this I printed the same document in Acrobat 7 and 9 and the marks were correct in 7 and not in 9.

I updated my printer driver and now all is good. Still don't understand why the driver was good for Acrobat 7 and not Acrobat 9, but problem solved so I'm happy.

Adding crop marks to a documents with bleeds & save as EPS

Working on Adobe CS6
A sign maker has asked me to submit my artwork for different signs (quite a few of them, in different-sizes) as EPS with crop/trim marks.
For instance: The size of this sign is 24"x24" with a .25" bleed. The Artboard shows the right size, and the crop marks show uo as they should. But once I let go of the Artboard, no crop marks show on my screen.
Any crop mark I try adding via the Object ("Create Trim Marks") or Effect menu for crop marks, both cases would create them around the BLEEDS, rather than the REAL ARTBOARD, which, of course, defies the purpose of a crop or trim mark...
I usually submit files for production saved as PDF w/bleeds & crop marks, but this sign maker wants them as EPS.
Is there a way around it, other than create those marks manually?....
...Thanks.

Set your artboard to the size of your sign and save the file as a pdf with "Trim Marks" checked and the bleed settings where you want them.
Open the resulting pdf in acrobat and save as an .eps
Open in Illustrator to verify that you're cross-marks were preserved.

I have justed upgraded CS2 to CS5. How do I set artboard crop or trim marks for printing?

I have justed upgraded CS2 to CS5. How do I set artboard crop or trim marks for printing? It was under the "OBJECTS" menu in CS2, but I can't find it in CS5.

it actually works the same way but better you don't see it that way but with perhaps more experience you might catch on and say "oh now I see that' all I have to do.
Multiple artboards, which you did not have in CS 2 , changes the equation.
When you open a new document you can set up a gangup in the new document dialog then say for a business card then do one business card in the first one.
Then copy the art and text of that first one and in one command paste that art in all of the artboards with one command, you can then make another artboard that encompasses all the artboards and you now have a gang up say six up you can now print all a once as a gang up or print a range of the artboards or specific artboards.
As a matter of fact now that you can paste on all artboards with one command AI CS 5 actually has a step and repeat feature that works verticaly and horizontally at the same time. And an improved version is easily had.
Also since you probably know how many you need of this first artboard then you can simply make one rectangle for for the first artboard and give it a crop area effect and when you do your copy include the rectangle and then paste on all artboards and there you are
look at the video, see how cool. less complicated not more complicated. And as other users explore this function I bet they come up with even better ideas.
http://mysite.verizon.net/wzphoto/Artboards.mov
I am going to make one adjustment here instead of doing a command c to copy the first artboard it would be better to do a command x to cut the first one since the command paste on all artboard does exactly that. So if you do a command c and a command option shift v then you have two rectangles and art and crop marks pasted on top of each other. Probably won't do any harm but might be confusing in the layers panel.

Photoshop CC - supplied Jpeg at 6.5"Hx9.5"w. Need to add trim marks for printer at 6"x9". How?

I have a jpeg which is 6.5" high x 9.5" wide. I need to insert trim marks at 6" x 9" leaving a .125" bleed. I am new to Photoshop but not a complete idiot. I've watched countless videos but don't see how to do this with art already done by someone else.
Is there anyone who can guide me?

Both seem appropriate. The issue is, the person creating the original art knew less of the software than I. And I just started.
The original art she provided is 9.5"wide x 6.5"high. She increased the surface area to allow for .125 bleeds and excess but the image went all the way to the edge of the canvas. I was simply trying to add trims marks for the purpose of cutting in the proper position.
This was for internal printing on a digital press. Because I would be the only person handling the materials from start to finish (including cutting) I wasn't worried about having to translate the layout on the press sheet.
I ended up deleting all of the text and stripping the art down to the bare image which I saved and rebuilt the entire art file from scratch, properly with layers and the correct page size. Which worked out great, because the client made changes that I would otherwise been unable to do.
Thank you all for the information. I'm still a little confused on how to simply add crop marks to someone else' artwork, but I have enough information to figure it out now.

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