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- [Voiceover] In this movie I'll show you



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how to add trim marks along with



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other printer marks,



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and this is something

you'd specifically do



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if you were submitting a job



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to a commercial print house.



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So here we are, looking at that document



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that includes the 18 point bleed.



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And so let's say



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I want to submit this job to a printer.



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Then I go up to the file menu



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and choose the print command,



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or of course you could press Control + P



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or Command + P on the Mac.



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And rather than setting the printer



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to the Office LazerJet right here,



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I'm gonna go ahead and scroll



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all the way down the list to Adobe PDF,



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which is the way to go



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when you're printing a document



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for commercial printer.



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Next I'm gonna turn off



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the auto rotate check box



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because I don't really want my artwork



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to be sideways,



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and I'm gonna change the

media size to custom.



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And the idea here is that

when you submit a job



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to a commercial printer,



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it can be any size you like.



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You're not limited by letter size



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or A4 size paper.



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It can be absolutely 100% custom.



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And so what your printer is gonna do



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is slice the page according

to your trim marks.



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Let me show you what that looks like.



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The first thing I'm gonna do...



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Notice that Illustrator's gone ahead



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and constrained the size of the page



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to the exact dimensions of the bleed.



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What I'm gonna do is add

200 points to the width



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and then I'll tab over to the height value



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and add 200 to it as well



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in order to give myself

a little bit of margin



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for those print marks.



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Now I'll select marks and bleeds



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from this left hand list



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in order to bring it to printer marks



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and generally speaking,



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all you need to do is turn on



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All Printer's Marks,



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and that way you get the trim marks,



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registration marks which

we'll see in a moment.



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And that helps the printer register



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the various inks.



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We also have color bars,



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these guys right here,



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which are just there

for proofing purposes.



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And then we've got the page information,



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which is gonna list the

name of the document.



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Now it's up to you how thick you want



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your trim marks to be,



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but generally speaking,



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a quarter point is the way to go.



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Now I'm gonna increase the offset value



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to 72 points.



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What that's gonna do?



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Notice as soon as I press the Tab key,



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it's gonna go ahead and

move those printer marks



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out beyond the edge of the artboard.



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In my case it's moving it 72 points



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outside the artboard.



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And now you can either choose to go



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with your current bleed settings



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or just because we have

so much extra artwork,



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I'm gonna turn this check box off.



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Notice that gets rid of the bleed.



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Notice that we're seeing

this dotted boundary



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tight to the artwork,



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which is not at all what we want.



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You want to make sure that



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you have some kind of bleed,



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so you can either go with



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the document bleed settings,



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which allow 18 points all the way around,



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which is a quarter of an inch.



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And you can see now

that the artwork extends



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a little bit beyond that dotted border.



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Or you can dial in your own value.



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For my part, I'm gonna make sure



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the link icon is turned on,



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and then I'm gonna change



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any one of these values to 60 points



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and press the Tab key.



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And you can see that



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that moves that bleed way outward.



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All right, now to get a sense



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of what this looks like,



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you want to click in the Print button,



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after which point Illustrator is going to



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invite you to name this document.



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I went ahead and called

it Printer marks.pdf.



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Now I go ahead and save

this in front of you,



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but it takes a couple of minutes,



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it's a pretty slow process



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because this is such an intensive file.



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So I'm just gonna go ahead and cancel out



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since I've already created

this document in advance.



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And then I'll switch over to Acrobat Pro



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where I have the file open



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as you can see right here.



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And what I want you to notice,



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I'll go ahead and zoom in

by pressing Control + Plus,



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or Command + Plus on the

Mac a couple of times.



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Notice these guys are the

registration marks right here,



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the ones next to the trim marks.



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And the trim marks, by the way,



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are the most important component,



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because they indicate how

the page should be trimmed,



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so we're really looking for the page



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to be trimmed like so,



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and that's gonna give us



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a lot of extra margin right there.



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All right, I'm gonna click off that guy



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in order to make him go away.



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There are the color bars right there,



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and they also appear incidentally



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at the bottom of the artwork,



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you see these shades of gray.



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And then up here in the top left corner,



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if I go ahead and zoom in by, once again,



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pressing Control + Plus a bunch of times,



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you can see the name of the document



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as well as today's date,



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the day that I'm recording this,



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along with the time.



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And assuming everything looks



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the way you want it to,



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then you would go ahead

and submit this PDF file



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to your commercial printer,



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complete with all trim and printer marks.



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And that's how you add trim



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and other printer marks



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to a camera-ready PDF file



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that you can then upload



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to a commercial print house.