Step 4: Set the printing bounding box and place crop marks around the image to be separated

You can place crop marks around the image to be separated, either directly on the artwork or in the separations. Crop marks indicate the image area.

Keep these points in mind when creating crop marks for color separations:

• If you are setting crop marks in the original artwork and want the artwork to contain a bleed (a margin added to the image so that it can be trimmed after printing), make sure that you extend the artwork past the crop marks to accommodate the bleed. (See Specifying the bleed area.)
• If you plan to separate several small pieces of artwork in the same file, you can create a set of trim marks for each piece of artwork. You might want more than one set, for example, if the file contains several business cards that you plan to separate. To create more than one set of trim marks, draw them in the artwork or use the Trim Marks filter. See Setting crop marks and trim marks.

Related Subtopics:

Specifying the printing bounding box in the separation
Specifying printer's marks