Printing With Trim Marks
If you've got a decent home or office printer, then this hack will help you to print out templates and digital prints at actual size. Adding trim marks to your page will take the guessing and measuring game out of your home printed digital prints, ensuring they will be exactly the size they are meant to be. This works for any digital file smaller than A4 or US Letter size.
---
To print your files at the desired size with trim marks is pretty simple. Trim marks make it easy for you to trim the page down to size without having to guess the dimensions.
However, for this to work, your digital file must be set up to the correct dimensions. For example, if you want to print a 5"x7" artwork, the PDF file must be set up as 5"x7" for the correct trim marks to appear. Please note that if you want to print A4 or US Letter sized files, they don't require trim marks.
All our templates and wall art printables are set to the correct dimensions, so you should have no problems with this method.
---
To print with trim marks:
1. We recommend using Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the PDF document. You can download this for free (https://get.adobe.com/uk/reader).
2. In the print menu, click 'Page Setup...' and choose your printer page size with scaling at 100%. Click 'OK' to close the window.
3. Ensure that scaling is set to 'Actual size' in the main 'Print' window.
4. Click 'Advanced' and click on 'Marks and Bleed' and tick the 'Trim Marks' option and 'OK'.
You should now see the trim marks in the preview window. If you want to go back to regular printing, remember to uncheck this option once you're done. Otherwise it'll save this option until you change it back to hide the trim marks.