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Adding Eyelet Marks To Edged & Eyeletted Vinyl Banners
This process only needs to be done for banners 5m long or shorter.
This process only needs to be done for banners 5m long or shorter.
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Create an artboard at 10% of the banner size

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Copy the artwork to the new artboard and scale to the required size

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Using rulers create a 50mm wide border around the outside

  1. Place a ruler on the edge of the artboard
  2. Place a second ruler inside the first
  3. Distribute spacing from the first ruler by 50mm (0.5cm @ 10%)
  4. Group the two rulers
  5. Repeat this process on all sides
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Draw a 3mm (0.03cm @ 10%) Pink Circle

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Centre the circle between the vertical rulers and the horizontal rulers in the top left corner

Repeat this in each corner

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Duplicate the circle in the top left multiple times spacing them roughly every 500mm (5cm @ 10%) stopping before the circle in the other corner

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Using Vertical Distribute Spacing space out the dots every 500mm (5cm @ 10%).

Delete any that go past the circle in the other corner. Don't delete the circle placed in step 5.

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Select all the circles on the edge you're working with and Vertically Distribute the spacing and group together.

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Create a duplicate of the row and centre in the middle of the rulers on the other edge of the artboard.

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<p>Repeat Steps 6-9 for the remaining edges</p>

Repeat Steps 6-9 for the remaining edges

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Add a Light Grey crop mark in each corner.

Colour To Use

C - 0

M - 0

Y - 0

K - 60

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<p>Save the File:</p>
<p>File &gt; Save As (Contol + Shift + S)</p>
<p>Open the production artwork folder (SIT01NAS01 &gt; Production &gt; Artwork)</p>
<p>Find Customer Folder</p>
<p>Name as &quot;Artwork Code&quot; Customer Name&quot;</p>
<p>Set Save As Type To PDF</p>
<p>Save</p>
<p>Then, save it again in Illustrator.</p>

Save the File:

File > Save As (Contol + Shift + S)

Open the production artwork folder (SIT01NAS01 > Production > Artwork)

Find Customer Folder

Name as "Artwork Code" Customer Name"

Set Save As Type To PDF

Save

Then, save it again in Illustrator.