Bleed / crop marks

hello,
i need to set crop marks for a business card. i thought this would be easy! but it isn't.
i created a 1/8th of a inch bleed area. i finally figured out where the Save as PDF bleed/crop mark setting is, but it is asking me how many Pts i'd like to set the bleed. what are points? what is a point? how does this imaginary point translate into real life? how many inches is that? what should i do because the only thing i can think of is screaming which probably won't help

I wonder if the dialog was asking you the trim mark setting? Because it is a stroke, it would be set in points. I usually set mine @ .5 pts. That's 1/2 of a point. But if it is referencing the bleed at 1/8 of an inch, then 72 pts per inch divided by 8 = 9 pts. I seldom see where bleed is indicated in points. What's more, I just set my own trim marks and bleed areas manually. I do this because I can set center marks, too. Far less of a hassle.

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Bleed / crop marks? Part II

I'm designing business cards, and I created them at 3.75x2.5, allowing for 1/8th inch bleed. I thought by setting the Bleed/Crop marks to 9 points (1/8th inch) I'd be setting marks for where the card cropping is supposed to take place, but all that happened was it added extra white space and then placed marks, which seems silly and redundant (what's the point of even adding the white space and then saying "oh yeah, but cut this off?")
I'm kind of new to bleed/crop marks, so maybe I'm not getting the idea here, but I thought what was going to happen was it would let the printer know where the bleed is supposed to be.

You need Pocket Pal if they still sell it to help you understand why things are done.
The extra white space is to accommodate paper need extra paper so the trim marks can be printed. In order to have a bleed on a commercial printing press the bleed has to extend beyond the actual size of the trimmed art because there is small movement for the press running at high speed.
By having the art extend past the trim edge that assures there will be no white edge showing.
Now if you print to a laser or inkjet because of the size of the paper size of the trimmed card you have to print n a larger piece of paper anyway.
Hence the extra white space for the trim marks and bleed.
You can turn off the trim marks and only have the bleed but that will defeat your purpose.
In the past the white space was not created and you did not see your trim marks or bleed area just the final trim size. This drove everyone crazy because they wanted t see their trim marks and bleed area, after all that is why they added them. They were actually there but no one could see them.
Now like them if the extra white space was not added then like them you would be here asking for the impossible to see the trim marks and bleed but not to increase the paper size.
I can't tell you how many times I gave the instructions to just print the proof on a larger paper size in order to see the marks and bleeds. Believe it or not almost no one understood that even season pros from this very forum.
So the extra area is actually totally transparent it has no color only the trim marks print or any other marks you opt to show. If you print at 100% on a paper the size of your trim, which in this case you will not be able to do anyway as it is too small a paper size for any printer, then the bleed and trim marks jus fall outside of the papers edge.
It might take you time to see the logic and physical requirements that make this so…but so it be and if you can wrap your head around it, you will know how to handle it in any circumstance. You just have to understand it and right now you do not seem to.

Bleed Crop Marks, Part III

Hello,
I am creating business cards. I created them at the size of 3.75x2.5, but I'd like the printer to trim them down to 3.5x2.
I was asked to create Trim Marks, or Crop Marks, to show where the cards are supposed to be trimmed.
How can I do this without setting manual marks? When I save as a PDF, there is an option for Bleed and Crop Marks, but they only add an extra area around my design, and leave the trim area at 3.75x2.5, which isn't what I need.
I have already added an extra area for bleed, as I am already aware of what bleed is, so please, I beg of you, don't explain what bleed is.
Thank you so much!

You're a difficult person to communicate with, if you can see your error you can't correct it
here is the video
http://mysite.verizon.net/wzphoto/Bleeds.mov
It is user error and we all make them but if you are not going to accept that then you will not understand and accusing people of misleading you or be ing less then sincere is not helpful.
Watch the video and listen to it.
There are probably other tutorials on Adobe TV as well.

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.

Bleed and crop marks in Pages '09

Need to export pages document as PDF with bleed and crop marks, HOW do I do that?
The printer needs to have bleed in the document to be able to crop.

Hi Daniel,
Welcome to the forum.
Pages does not have bleeds, crop marks nor slugs.
You will need to increase the page size all round by 3/8" or 10mm and add them as 100% cmyk rules to the corners.
Best done in Word Processing mode with the crops as master objects so they appear on every page.
Crude, primitive and harking back to what I had to do back in the 80's and early 90's, but Pages seems to be in a time warp.
Peter

Printing with Bleed and Crop marks from PS to PDF

So, i have created a business card with a .125in bleed all around in photoshop. I know that you can go to File->print->output in photoshop and specify crop marks and the amound of bleed...however, i have saved my business card as a PDF from photoshop. I want to print from the PDF version as i have the plug-in quite imposing 2 for acrobat and use step and repeat. How do i add the crop marks in the right place from Acrobat on the business card?

Do you have Quite Imposing Plus 2 or just Quite Imposing 2?
cheers,
Charles

Printing with Bleed and Crop marks from a PDF made with PS

So, i have created a business card with a .125in bleed all around in photoshop. I know that you can go to File->print->output in photoshop and specify crop marks and the amound of bleed...however, i have saved my business card as a PDF from photoshop. I want to print from the PDF version as i have the plug-in quite imposing 2 for acrobat and use step and repeat to print multiples on 11x17 paper. How do i add the crop marks in the right place from Acrobat on the business card?

Do you have Quite Imposing Plus 2 or just Quite Imposing 2?
cheers,
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Crop Marks not in correct place when Bleed applied - possible Bug/Error?

Apologies if anyone has posted this elsewhere - I checked the Help, FAQ, Forums and Googled it - but I really can't find a solution to this minor problem I'm having.
I have created a document that will be cut to 120mm x 120mm, I wanted to include a 10mm bleed around it so I made my Photoshop doc 140mm x 140mm.
When I go to the Print dialogue I have checked "Corner Crop Marks", set the bleed to 10mm and in the preview I can see that the crop marks are inside the image, marking out the correct 120x120 area. However, when I click Print the marks appear on the paper at the 140mm x 140mm area.
Has anyone else had this error, and even more importantly, has anyone found a solution?
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I am producing guides to using Photoshop at the moment and I don't want to include something that can't be done!
Kev Gilmour

Wow... I'm using Photoshop CS5 for Windows and have just encountered this very same problem. The print preview shows the corner crop marks in the correct location as designated by the Bleed... setting (.1"); but when I print, the bleed setting gets ignored and the corner crop marks revert to the outer edges of the image.
This happens when I print to my Epson color laser or to my Brother b/w laser. It occurred to me to try one other test - and interestingly enough, when I printed to a PDF, the corner marks appeared correctly in the output!
So far, I haven't found any other information on this apparent bug besides this ancient thread.
Anyone willing to test this out and give their results? Thanks!
Archer

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Were the crop marks printing on all four corners BEFORE you added "Include Slug Area"? In addition to adding the slug area in the print dialog, did you change the Slug Area values in the Document Set Up? Now that it works, is the printing scaled to a smaller size than before?
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I'm trying to lay out a 4x6 postcard on a 4.5x6.5 document. I want my crop marks and bleed lines at 4x6 to tell the printer where to trim off the extra. I'm setting my bleeds up for .25 on each side to give me lines that make a 4x6 finished product but it's not working. The crop marks aren't even close to where I want them. I've set up guides at 4x6 to compare where they are landing and it's way off. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Please Help!

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Can anyone tell me how to place the crop marks for a multiple page project ?
For example on a left page do i have to set the crop marks only on the left side of the page or all around it ?
*i'm using PS because i have no experience with ID.
Thanking you in advance

jeffozan wrote:
*i'm using PS because i have no experience with ID.
You plan to use Photoshop to lay out an entire magazine? I'll say a prayer for you.

I've created a Photoshop PDF and all the text is editbale after passing through indesign to add crop marks and bleeds - one line now isn't editable, what's causing this

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Thanks!

Booklet .pdf with crop marks, booklet doesn't fit the current paper size warning

Hello. I am on XP using CS4 InDesign.
I have the document set up as 4 pages, each 8.5 x 11, however, when creating a booklet .pdf, I mean it to be 2 pages 11x17.
When I add in the crop marks they do not appear on the .pdf when it is created. I receive a warning in the booklet diaglog that the booklet doesn't fit the current paper size and it says to specify a larger paper size.
What can I do to have the crop marks on my file? I understand the .pdf will be a little larger than 11x17 in order to fit the crop marks.
Thanks for any help in advance.

Hi Peter,
Thank you. I did try that first, but now I figured out what I did wrong. When the .pdf was made and opened, I cropoped the page according to the marks, but the page remained 12 x 18 instead of 11x17. I made sure that the "automatically adjust to fit marks and bleeds" and "use document bleed settings" was checked in the booklet dialog and print InDesign dialog.
When I cropped the page again to make sure I sized it correctly, it was 11x17.
Thank you!!!

How do I change the alignment of crop marks?

When exporting a document as a PDF the crop marks are automatically aligned with the edge of the document, but I need to move them a couple of millimetres in to account for the bleed.
I can't find any options where I can change this. The only option I can see is 'offset' but that just varies the actual distance of the crop marks from the document.
I'm sure it's something really obvious but I'm going nuts here. Any help would be great. Thanks.

Why not make the document the cut size and set the bleed in the document? That's out of box and standard.
Alternately you can use the Crop Marks script found in the Scripts panel and make boxes in your document's cut size, crop marks based on their bounds.

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