

If you need to thicken the line weight, you will need to expand the crop marks by selecting OBJECT>Expand or OBJECT>Expand Appearance. Please note that your crop marks are considered line objects and must meet your plate type’s minimum line thickness to be guaranteed to hold on your plate type (Link to What is My Minimum Line Thickness For My Plate Type?). While using Adobe InDesign, you will need to create the crop marks manually by creating line segments via the LIne Tool (L) to delineate what your trim down size. Avoid saving as an AI extension, the crop marks will be left off outside your artboard and not included in the file. You may then save the file as a PDF and send us either EPS or PDF. You will need to save your file with an eps extension so the crop marks will be included. In Method 2, If you created your design in illustrator and set up your artboard to measure the finished size of your printed piece, any crop marks created will be outside the artboard. In CS3 or older, select FILTER>Create>Crop Marks. In CS4 or newer, select EFFECT>Crop Marks to create the correct type of crop marks in Illustrator. Crop marks will be created outside the corners of the box. Next, while the rectangle is still selected, drag it to its proper position over the artwork. Create the rectangle so that the box size is your piece’s final trim down size (e.g such as 5.5″ x 7″ for an invitation, etc). In Method 1, first create a rectangle by using the Rectangle (or Marquee tool (M)) in your standard tool palette located on the left-hand side of your screen. There are two ways to create crop marks in Illustrator. What you need to print well on your L Letterpress Machine Even if you specify a crop area, if it falls outside the dimensions of the artboard, Illustrator will not recognize it.
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