- [Voiceover] In this movie I'll show you
how to add trim marks along with
other printer marks,
and this is something you'd specifically do
if you were submitting a job
to a commercial print house.
So here we are, looking at that document
that includes the 18 point bleed.
And so let's say
I want to submit this job to a printer.
Then I go up to the file menu
and choose the print command,
or of course you could press Control + P
or Command + P on the Mac.
And rather than setting the printer
to the Office LazerJet right here,
I'm gonna go ahead and scroll
all the way down the list to Adobe PDF,
which is the way to go
when you're printing a document
for commercial printer.
Next I'm gonna turn off
the auto rotate check box
because I don't really want my artwork
to be sideways,
and I'm gonna change the media size to custom.
And the idea here is that when you submit a job
to a commercial printer,
it can be any size you like.
You're not limited by letter size
or A4 size paper.
It can be absolutely 100% custom.
And so what your printer is gonna do
is slice the page according to your trim marks.
Let me show you what that looks like.
The first thing I'm gonna do...
Notice that Illustrator's gone ahead
and constrained the size of the page
to the exact dimensions of the bleed.
What I'm gonna do is add 200 points to the width
and then I'll tab over to the height value
and add 200 to it as well
in order to give myself a little bit of margin
for those print marks.
Now I'll select marks and bleeds
from this left hand list
in order to bring it to printer marks
and generally speaking,
all you need to do is turn on
All Printer's Marks,
and that way you get the trim marks,
registration marks which we'll see in a moment.
And that helps the printer register
the various inks.
We also have color bars,
these guys right here,
which are just there for proofing purposes.
And then we've got the page information,
which is gonna list the name of the document.
Now it's up to you how thick you want
your trim marks to be,
but generally speaking,
a quarter point is the way to go.
Now I'm gonna increase the offset value
to 72 points.
What that's gonna do?
Notice as soon as I press the Tab key,
it's gonna go ahead and move those printer marks
out beyond the edge of the artboard.
In my case it's moving it 72 points
outside the artboard.
And now you can either choose to go
with your current bleed settings
or just because we have so much extra artwork,
I'm gonna turn this check box off.
Notice that gets rid of the bleed.
Notice that we're seeing this dotted boundary
tight to the artwork,
which is not at all what we want.
You want to make sure that
you have some kind of bleed,
so you can either go with
the document bleed settings,
which allow 18 points all the way around,
which is a quarter of an inch.
And you can see now that the artwork extends
a little bit beyond that dotted border.
Or you can dial in your own value.
For my part, I'm gonna make sure
the link icon is turned on,
and then I'm gonna change
any one of these values to 60 points
and press the Tab key.
And you can see that
that moves that bleed way outward.
All right, now to get a sense
of what this looks like,
you want to click in the Print button,
after which point Illustrator is going to
invite you to name this document.
I went ahead and called it Printer marks.pdf.
Now I go ahead and save this in front of you,
but it takes a couple of minutes,
it's a pretty slow process
because this is such an intensive file.
So I'm just gonna go ahead and cancel out
since I've already created this document in advance.
And then I'll switch over to Acrobat Pro
where I have the file open
as you can see right here.
And what I want you to notice,
I'll go ahead and zoom in by pressing Control + Plus,
or Command + Plus on the Mac a couple of times.
Notice these guys are the registration marks right here,
the ones next to the trim marks.
And the trim marks, by the way,
are the most important component,
because they indicate how the page should be trimmed,
so we're really looking for the page
to be trimmed like so,
and that's gonna give us
a lot of extra margin right there.
All right, I'm gonna click off that guy
in order to make him go away.
There are the color bars right there,
and they also appear incidentally
at the bottom of the artwork,
you see these shades of gray.
And then up here in the top left corner,
if I go ahead and zoom in by, once again,
pressing Control + Plus a bunch of times,
you can see the name of the document
as well as today's date,
the day that I'm recording this,
along with the time.
And assuming everything looks
the way you want it to,
then you would go ahead and submit this PDF file
to your commercial printer,
complete with all trim and printer marks.
And that's how you add trim
and other printer marks
to a camera-ready PDF file
that you can then upload
to a commercial print house.