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Prepare the card for my artwork PDF (Bleed and crop marks) for the perfect print – CorelDRAW 12 and Adobe Illustrator CS3

Most people in the digital world of today use some kind of graphic software and have any idea how to mount a "Postcards>, business card flyer or brochure, postcard with no or little problem. Brochures The problem is that his work is unfinished – unfinished meaning to their works do not have the necessary values "Bleed" and / or "crop marks" in the PDF. Both values bleed and cut marks are needed on the printout as the printer knows exactly how handle and cut their product. Ever wonder why the graphics are not centralized or something important is cut? The reason is because you, through his art has enabled printers have thousands of options and ways to print your product. So basically, a bet is to send your artwork to printers values without any bleeding and / or cut marks.

Values Bleed:
Bleed values are needed for the printers to print "beyond" the size of the product – as a result, the margins of their products are printed with your graphics and colors, and not some white line showing up in the face of your print product. If there is bleeding in the file, or printer can usually 'stretches' the file for bleeding, In addition to printing the whole product. It can function for you, unless of course, the stretching process stretches out her important text / graphics, and then cut them off, or the art is not centered on your final product. Printers very limited control of the output comes without bleed values. I'll explain to him quick and easy ways values to add bleed to your artwork.

Crop marks:
Crop marks are required for printers align and center the product and most importantly, where to cut their product. There can be thousands of ways to put your product on the printing plates and thousands of ways to cut products without crop marks. Using crop marks in PDF, there is only one way to put your product and cut. The probability of "a" are the best.

CorelDRAW 12 – How to Bleed and crop marks
Most people reading this will already have done your artwork, so let's move on to make the project flawlessly with any printer shop. A standard business card is priced at 2 "x 3.5" – this will also the "Book type / size of your project from Corel in both methods 1 and 2 below. Next is bleeding. At this point, it is important to know the bleeding value of your printer shop – some are .25 "and print shops are very good .125.

In CorelDRAW 12, there are two ways to create bleed.

Method 1 – (Ex. Card – finished size: 2 "X 3.5" with bleeding of 0.125 ", 2.125" X 3.625 ")
Add him bleed print settings output. Go to File, Print Preview, Settings, Layout – Check mark 'Bleed Threshold. Keep in mind that you just can not type the value in the field bleeding. You have to think: Corel bleed value extends over all four sides if the project – If you go into a bleeding vaule of 0.125 ", you get .125" on top, .125 "at the bottom, .125" on the left and 0.125 "right So if you do the math: The size of the card 2. x 3.5 "Height: 2." + .125 "+ 0.125 "= 2.25" Width Wrong – 3.5! "+ 0.125" + 0.125 "= Wrong again! You will need to take to bleed value that the shop offers printer (eg .125 ") and then divide by 2 (two-sided) = 0.0625 That's right! Then enter into 0.0625" for the "Bleed Limit 'field and press 'Apply' and 'OK'.

Note: Add the guidelines for your project that is not printed. This will give you an "orientation" where not to place your important text or graphics. With a bleeding .125 guidelines need to compensate for the size of the card of 0.0625, which is 0.125 "/ 2 since we have two sides. Thus, the vertical dimension guidelines would be for example: -. 0625," 0.0 "0.0625", 1375 " 2.0 "2.0625". Horizontal is: -. 0625, "0.0", 0.0625, 2.9375, "3.0" 3.0625 ".

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Go to File, Print Preview, Settings prepress. Select the 'Crop / foldmarks' and' just Exterior. Press "Apply" and "OK". You now have crop marks in PDF. Publish to PDF – Done.

Method 2 – Make your image sizes to bleed value. Example: 2.125 x 3.625. "All we did here was add to bleed the value 0.125 for the width and height of images. Once you center your image, now you have bleeding.

Note: Add the guidelines for your project that is not printed. This will give you an 'orientation' of where not to place your important text or graphics. With a bleeding .125 guidelines need to compensate for the size of the card of 0.0625, which is 0.125 "/ 2 since we have two sides. Thus, the vertical dimension guidelines would be for example: -. 0625, "0.0" 0.0625 ", 1.375", 2.0 ", 2.0625". Horizontal is: -. 0625, "0.0" 0.0625 "2.9375" 3.0 "3.0625".

Add your crop marks, as explained above. Publish to PDF – Done.

Adobe Illustrator CS3 – Instructions for Bleed and crop marks
1. Set the dimensions of the installation document to 3.625 "X 2.125"
2. Align all your images with the above dimensions. (Remember the Safety Net. All text must be important in the window of 1.875 "X 3.375"). It is good practice the use of the "Guidelines" offset d 0.0625 for all four sides "IN" the size of the B-Card 2 "x 3.5".
3. Re-Set dimensional configuration of the document back to 3.5 "X 2.0" and leave the pictures that are in step 1. This step will allow the need to print Bleed perfectly to the edges and cut marks on paper will come with installation dimensions 3.5 "X 2.0".
4. Align some of the graphics if necessary.
5. Save as PDF – Preset to "Press". Marks and Bleeds Tab "All the printer's marks" will be selected and defined Bleed to zero, because no matter how you play with the bleeding, no effect seems to be the result.

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