Question on Registration Marks!

Hi there, I am going to be doing some browsing on the forums but I do have sort of a deadline. I just started working for a company that does Type Setting and my boss needs me to work in CorelDraw. I am using there licensed version at the office which is not a problem other than the fact that I am more proficient in Adobe Illustrator haha!

To get to the point, I have to put crop marks and registration marks on the page for our business cards that we are printing. They have to be horizontal and vertical with the crop marks on all 4 corners. I understand how to install and use macro's.. I may need some guidance on where to find a reliable macro source for our X4 edition.

What I need to know!

1. How to adjust the registartion mark settings to allow for horizontal and vertical placements..

2. To adjust the settings so that I can see the marks on the paper properly when it is printed.

3. Maybe even information on where to properly reference this information and set this up how they need it done so that I can do these jobs fluently.

They want 4 (2 on each side, vertical and horizontal) bulls-eye registration marks with the corner crop marks (at an adjustable distance) to be visible when printed. We have landscape settings and one thing that happens is CorelDraw has 1 warning that says I have to adjust the bleed settings for the registration marks to fit on the paper.. We have a HP Jet 5000gn Workgroup Printer in the office, I understand how to get to and adjust the printer settings and I have all technical and service manuals to-boot. We are an offset printing business and if there is a place to reference the industry standard use for CorelDraw I would be GREATLY blessed! Thank you all so much for any help and response that you can contribute.

Pinetop over 7 years ago

Check out the options from your Print Dialog, Prepress tab. Everything you want is there.
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ASolidWorker over 7 years ago in reply to Pinetop

I was all over that dialog yesterday but I will give it another shot. Thanks for the advice, Pinetop. I will post back with more information in a couple of hours. Thanks again to anyone who can provide me with good reference / resource links. I would really appreciate that as well.

Thanks,
ASolidWorker
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Mek over 7 years ago in reply to ASolidWorker

File - Print Preview - Imposition Layout Tool & Marks Placement Tools

or look here

or here
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Jeff Harrison over 7 years ago in reply to ASolidWorker

Here's a free macro:

http://macromonster.com/product/dizzy-crop-marker/

If the built-in options inside CorelDRAW don't meet your needs.
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Ariel over 7 years ago in reply to Jeff Harrison

Òk, there're two basic ways to add cropmarks on CorelDRAW:
1 - Automatically - Set the page size at the real size (ie A4, A5, etc), then go to File/Print preview and choose the Imposition you need and add crop marks. The marks will be added according with the real page size. (that's similar to any Impsoition software, such as Kodak preps or Heidelberg prinect) and also it's the same concept if you send a PDF made with Adobe software to any printing company)
2 - Manual, using Macro. There're several macros, but basically you will find two kind of macros for cropmarks: individual cropmarks (such as Dizzy crop marker suggested by Jeff or he similar macro from Oberon http://oberonplace.com/vba/drawmacros/cropmarksh.htm) and the multple cropmarks such as Tiler macro (http://oberonplace.com/vba/drawmacros/tiler.htm) as Mek suggested. That create several copies of the object, set distance between each and add cropmarks. I use both often. Cropmarkls are set on "registration" color and it will be stored on the document, allowing to place several jobs with different size if you need.
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