When drawing crop marks to add to an illustration in application software, take into account the margin necessary for cutting the material when setting the crop mark position.
Procedure
There is no particular design that should be used for crop marks, but using shapes with corners as shown in the figure below facilitates alignment.
When using material with a large amount of feed (long material), we recommend that you set the left and right margins to approximately 25 mm.
You will enter these values into the machine later.
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Check the origin (the point where both X and Y are 0) of the software that you are using.
Make a note of the distance between this origin and the lower-left crop mark.
Here, the lower-left corner of the paper surface is the origin in the software. Later explanations assume that the distance from the origin to the lower-left crop mark has the positional relationship shown in the following figure.
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Offset L: 45 mm Offset W: 25 mm |