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Adobe Illustrator Help Printing
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3 For Intent, choose the rendering intent to use when converting colors to the desti-
nation profile space. For more information, see “
Specifying a rendering intent” on
page 184.
Setting crop marks and trim marks
Crop marks define where the artwork is trimmed after it is printed. You can place crop
marks directly into your artwork using the Object > Crop Marks > Make command. If you
select Japanese Crop Marks in the General Preferences dialog box, any crop marks you
create in your file will appear as Japanese-style crop marks.
Like crop marks, trim marks also define where a printed image should be trimmed;
however, you use trim marks to create multiple marks inside your artwork. The Trim Marks
filter creates trim marks based on an imaginary rectangle drawn around the imageable
area of the object.
Illustrator does not recognize trim marks created with the Trim Marks filter as special
objects when creating color separations. As a result, trim marks do not affect the printing
bounding box around the artwork. Trim marks are useful, therefore, when you want to
create several sets of marks around objects on a page—for example, when you are
creating a sheet of business cards to be printed.
To set crop marks directly in the artwork:
1 Draw a rectangle to define the boundaries of where you want the crop marks to appear.
(It doesn’t matter if the rectangle is filled or stroked.)
2 Select the rectangle.
3 Choose Object > Crop Marks > Make. If you have selected a rectangle as the border, the
crop marks replace the selected rectangle. If no rectangle has been selected, crop marks
are placed at the corners of the artboard.
Once you’ve set crop marks, you cannot directly select or edit them. To indirectly edit crop
marks, you can choose Object > Crop Marks > Release, edit the rectangle that defines the
crop marks boundary, and then remake them using the Object > Crop Marks > Make
command. If you want to delete the existing crop marks, you can use the Object > Crop
Marks > Release command.
You can use the Make Crop Marks command without first creating and selecting a
rectangle to define the boundaries of the crop marks. The crop marks are set at the
outer corners of the document.
If you plan to separate a color Illustrator file, you should first set crop marks in the artwork.
If you don’t set crop marks, by default Illustrator sets them around the bounding box of all
objects in the artwork.
For more information on setting crop marks in color separations, see “
Step 4: Set the
printing bounding box and place crop marks around the image to be separated” on
page 354.
To eliminate crop marks:
Choose Object > Crop Marks > Release. The original rectangle reappears to define the
bounding area of your artwork. The rectangle may then be deleted or moved.
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