Adobe InDesign - Manual (Page 743)

All Printer’s Marks
Crop Marks
Bleed Marks
Registration Marks
Color Bars
Page Information
Type
Weight
Offset
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Files saved in PostScript file format allow capable post-processing programs to implement their own variable bleed.
1. Choose File > Print.
2. Click Marks And Bleed on the left side of the Print dialog box.
3. Select either All Printer’s Marks or individual marks.
4. To override bleed settings in the Document Setup dialog box, uncheck Use Document Bleed Settings and enter values from 0 to 6 inches (or
equivalents) for Top, Bottom, Left, and Right (for single-sided documents), or Top, Bottom, Inside, and Outside (for double-sided documents
with facing pages). To extend the offset evenly on all sides of the page, click the Make All Settings The Same icon .
5. Click Include Slug Area to print objects using the slug area defined in the Document Setup dialog box.
You can preview the bleed and slug areas before printing by clicking the Bleed Preview Mode or the Slug Preview Mode icon at the bottom of
the Toolbox. (These may be hidden by the Preview Mode icon .)
Marks and Bleed options
The Marks And Bleed area includes the following options:
Selects all printer’s marks including crop marks, bleed marks, registration marks, color bars, and page information.
Adds fine (hairline) horizontal and vertical rules that define where the page should be trimmed. Crop marks can also help register
(align) one color separation to another. By using together with bleed marks, you can select overlapped marks.
Adds fine (hairline) rules that define the amount of extra area to image outside the defined page size.
Adds small “targets” outside the page area for aligning the different separations in a color document.
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.
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.
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.
Displays possible weights for crop and bleed mark lines.
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.
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