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Print Preparation

Create cut-line and plate marks for digitization: set up an artboard template with crop guides, safe area and registra…

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AExecute — “help me do it”Create cut-line and plate marks for digitization: set up an artboard template with crop guides,…+
Create cut-line and plate marks for digitization: set up an artboard template with crop guides, safe area and registration marks sized to standard scanning platen, include 5mm bleed and export as a packaged file for the imaging team by Friday.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.
BImprove — “do it better”Before handing to imaging, make marks enforce consistent crops: provide templates for the three…+
Before handing to imaging, make marks enforce consistent crops: provide templates for the three most-used platen sizes, add numbered corner crop marks and a visible safe-zone mask, include a short note on where metadata badges should sit, and export one packaged file plus individual template PDFs for each platen size.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

The real tasks

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Create a set of cut-line marks and plate marks for items to be digitized so imaging techs crop consistently across collections.

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Because you rarely think 'I want the redaction tool'. You think 'I have to share this without leaking the client's details'. Start from the need, and the feature finds you.

Real. Every job here was drawn from what people in real roles were actually seen doing in Illustrator — not a feature checklist.

No. Each page gives you a ready prompt you can paste into an AI assistant, plus the plain steps to do it yourself. Start with either — the goal is the finished job, not the tool.