Crop marks and sheets
Crop marks tell the print shop exactly where to cut. The plugin offers them two ways: sharp vector marks drawn into the PDF at export time (recommended), and a visual print sheet on the Figma canvas for raster workflows.
Vector marks in the PDF (recommended)
On the PDF export tab, keep Draw vector crop marks enabled. Eight hairlines are drawn into the PDF itself:
- Name
Length- Type
- 4 mm
- Description
Standard mark length used by commercial printers.
- Name
Offset- Type
- bleed + 1 mm
- Description
Marks start outside the bleed area, so they can never touch or print over your artwork.
- Name
Color- Type
- registration
- Description
Drawn as C100 M100 Y100 K100 in CMYK exports, so the marks appear on every separation plate.
- Name
Weight- Type
- 0.3 pt
- Description
A hairline once printed.
You can also enable Draw visible trim line for shops that want to see the cut on the sheet: a 0.25 pt rectangle exactly at the trim.
The print sheet (Marks tab)
For raster workflows such as the CMYK TIFF export, the Marks tab wraps a copy of your selected frame in a white sheet with the same eight marks plus a size caption. Tell it whether your frame already includes bleed (frames from Setup do).
Do not feed a print sheet into the PDF tab: it already contains raster marks and you would get marks twice. Select the artwork frame instead and let the PDF draw sharper vector marks. The plugin warns you if you try.
Dielines for stickers and labels
The PDF tab can add a dieline: a spot-color rectangle at the trim box with optional corner radius, drawn with overprint enabled. Choose the plate name your shop expects: CutContour, Dieline, KissCut, PerfCutContour, Crease, or Varnish. Cutting machines read this named plate to know where to cut.