Need Help FlexiSIGN How do I add crops to a file?

1) No, that's done in the rip. 2) why crop marks?

 

Ah, well as someone who does production work, I despise crop marks. In our environment, they only allow you to accurately trim two sides. When you're using a ruler and knife (not a square or chopper) then you end up cutting off the mark you need to line up on the next cut. If you haven't done it yet, try it. I'm sure they work great for small format stuff where you can guillotine them while they're squared up against a guide or something and just need to position the blade.

 

What do you use if you don't use crops? edge lines? Genuinely curious!

We crop everything. We use the crops when applying to substrates as alignment marks, We also use it for cutting square... Yes, if you cut the whole length it'll cut the other crop off... But you cut just up to the crop line and you can still use the crops.

For our guillotines we use inside crops and just cut to the crops to square the media / stack it up, and from there we cut hundreds of sheets at once. But for all our other prints we use regular crops.

As for how to do it in flexi... I don't use flexi anymore so I'm not sure. It seems like a pretty basic feature and should be possible, but maybe since it's in production manager they don't have it in design... so I can't be of help, sorry!

 

use MARGIN in Flexi RIP. Then you don't cut anything off when you cut one side.

 

we make the print slightly larger than the substrate and put a stroke on it to use a a cut line

 

We use margin, the artwork bleed if it's not white, dotted trim lines, or even a solid line if we're hemming. But mostly margin.

 

Oh we do that anyway....slight bleed AND margin marks (if white background).