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Crop Marks

To print an image without a blank area around the image, the non-printing areas must be trimmed after printing. Crop marks can be used to show the printer where the printing area ends, and the non-printing area begins. The part which is trimmed off is called bleed.

Crop marks will get a white offset, to see them better on dark(er) backgrounds.

The crop marks have a fixed length of 6 mm (recommended by the Ghent Workgroup)

Registration color

Crop marks are always in Registration color to ensure they are visible on all color plates.
Registration color means 100% of all process and spot colors, regardless of the colors that are used in the document.
See Wikipedia on Registration Black

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See How to add cropmarks to your output (settings)