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Printing and cutting the mockup

Printing and cutting the mockup

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Printing and cutting the mockup

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When you're finished designing your carton you've been looking at it in two dimensions on your computer monitor and trying to sort of visualize it in three dimensions to make sure everything's okay. It's a good idea to print it out, fold it up and take a look at it in three dimensions. Hold it in your hand and make sure everything seems right. Generally speaking you're working on a carton that's too big to print out on one piece of paper unless you have a huge format printer. So I'm going to show you how you can tile out a large piece on smaller paper. When I go to File > Print, Illustrator assumes I want to use the letter size paper that my printer takes. So, first, I'm going to turn off Auto-Rotate and that lets me control how it falls. And then, here's the second part, where it says scaling, do not scale. Click that little pull down and you have two choices that make sense, tile full pages, tile imageable area. The only difference is that imageable area is just where there's…

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