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today we're going to talk about crop marks hi everyone its call from pixels Inc in printing terms crop marks are the lines that are placed the corners of a page or on your artwork layout that sure where the paper will be trimmed after the printing process is complete as the crop marks show where the paper is to be trimmed often you'll hear people refer to them as trim lines or trim guides or trim marks but for the purposes of our video and for future videos I will always refer to them as crop marks crop marks are a crucial element to any piece of artwork that will be trimmed after the printing process generally crop marks will be added using the software that you've used to create your original design and they can be added manually or automatically in a future video I'll be showing you how to do this using Adobe Illustrator software when your printer receives the artwork from you it is printed onto paper which is larger than the document size that's desired then using the crop marks placed onto the artwork the printer will trim the document down to size here's a quick example showing business card artwork with crop marks in place you'll see that the artwork of the business card extends past the crop marks and this is what's known as bleed and we'll cover that in a future video not all artwork however has bleed and where there is no bleed it's even more important that you have crop marks included quote marks are extremely important to ensure the project is trimmed in the proper places and to the proper size if you were to send your artwork to a printer with no crop marks on the artwork then one of two things will happen one the printer will contact you and ask you to resend the artwork with crop marks included or two if they're a good printer what they will do is they will add the crop marks onto the artwork for you you can't always rely on a printer doing that for you though so it is your responsibility to make sure crop marks are on there in the first place in any case whether you have to add the crop marks again yourself or the printer does that for you then you're going to be adding time on to the print turnaround and if you've got quite a tight deadline on your project that could prove very troublesome for you so it's been quite a short video today but I hope it's been enough to give you an insight into what crop marks are and why they're important on your finished piece of printed artwork if you've enjoyed the video please subscribe to my channel give the video a thumbs up like and please if you have any comments or questions about crop marks leave them in the comment section below and I'll be sure to answer each and every one of them for you so until our next video stay creative you