Using crop marks - Am I stupid? :)

[LERsince1991]

Right so I'm starting to use the crop marks and stuff from indesign and pdf to get borderless documents but I've got a couple of questions.

1 - Am I stupid? - When i've printed using all the marks etc... from indesign. I go to slice them up on the guillotine and slice one side using the marks, but then that slices of the other 2 crop marks so I cant line up the sides that are next to the first? How do I use the crop marks?

2 - I want to add crop marks to a pdf from pages but not sure how... actually, just found out how. Expanded the a4 pdf in acrobat pro to a3 then added all trim marks etc...

So how do i trim using the trim marks please? :/

Luke

 

[killr_b]

Uh, homie, you have to cut inside the crop marks.
Cutting inside the crop marks will probably require a large flat table with a cutting surface, an exacto knife (#11 blade) and a really big ruler made for cutting against.

When I worked in a sign/ print shop that's how we did it.

 

[LERsince1991]

ah right cool, thought there would be a better way to do it as with a guillotine it would be a slightly better cut, I'll knife it

 

[Jim Campbell]

Yah. Cutting mat, steel rule and a really sharp blade. Start and end your cut along both long edges inside the edge of the paper, then rotate 90° and cut through on the other edges.

Cheers

Jim