[Tot]

How would you mark cutting guides, so that printers know where to fold?

I have always used registration marks in the past is this the correct way to present your work?

[Mr Fred]

thats fine for crop edges.
you can draw anyline anywhere to indicate cut/die/edge etc and just use registration as colour choice.

[Grant]

Originally Posted by Tot

How would you mark cutting guides, so that printers know where to fold?

I have always used registration marks in the past is this the correct way to present your work?

Best to use a special colour not used in the document, make new spot colour name it fold guide, cutter guide etc, I would use a 100 M as this is more noticable but be sure to make it a spot colour so it seperates correctly. Solid lines for cut marks and dotted line for fold marks.

[Mr Fred]

or as i said earlier use the fucking registration swatch - thats what its for.

[d*d]

what about using the registration colour?

[Mr Fred]

i think that would work.

[Grant]

But the Registration colour will seperate as all the colours used in the document and would also therefor overprint, so if you are say using it as a fold guide or a die cut guide then it woud not work properly and the file would have to be fixed before egoing to plate.