Adobe InDesign CC 2015 - Manual (Page 583)

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Printing
Last updated 6/6/2015
Registration Marks Adds small “targets” outside the page area for aligning the different separations in a color
document.
Color Bars Adds small squares of color representing the CMYK inks and tints of gray (in 10% increments). Your service
provider uses these marks to adjust ink density on the printing press.
Page Information Prints the filename, page number, current date and time, and color separation name in 6-point
Helvetica in the lower-left corner of each sheet of paper or film. The Page Information option requires 0.5 inches
(13mm) along the horizontal edge.
Please note that page information is printed in GothicBBB-Medium-83pv-RKSJ-H (Medium Gothic) font.
Type Lets you choose default printer’s marks or custom marks (for Japanese pages, for example). You can create custom
printer’s marks or use custom marks created by another company.
Weight Displays possible weights for crop and bleed mark lines.
Offset Specifies how far from the edge of the page (not the bleed) InDesign will draw printer’s marks. By default,
InDesign draws printer’s marks 6 points from the edge of the page. To avoid drawing printer’s marks on a bleed, be sure
to enter an Offset value greater than the Bleed value.
Change the page position on the media
When you print a document to a cut-sheet media size that is larger than the document size, you can control where the
slug and bleed areas, printer’s marks, and page fall on the media by using the Page Position options in the Setup area of
the Print dialog box. If a document doesn’t fit the media and needs to be clipped, you can specify which part of the
document is clipped. The preview image in the Print dialog box shows the results.
Note: To see the bleed and slug areas and printer’s marks, use the Scale To Fit option instead of Page Position; scaled pages
are always centered. The Page Position options are unavailable when Scale To Fit, Thumbnails, or Tile is selected.
❖ In the Setup area of the Print dialog box, choose a position in the Page Position menu.
More Help topics
Creating PostScript and EPS files
Preparing to print separations
For detailed information and instructions, click the links below.
Creating separations
To reproduce color and continuous-tone images, printers usually separate artwork into four plates—one plate for each
of the cyan (C), yellow (Y), magenta (M), and black (K) portions of the image. When inked with the appropriate color
and printed in register with one another, these colors combine to reproduce the original artwork. The process of
dividing the image into two or more colors is called color separating, and the films from which the plates are created
are called the separations.