This is a Typst package to add cut, bleed, and registration marks to documents.

It's likely that some future version of Typst will obsolete this package. Until that time, it's nice to have a way to achieve this functionality with the current version.

Demo

...can be generated with:

#import "@preview/markly:0.4.0"

#let markly-context = markly.setup(
  stock-width:6in,
  stock-height:4in,

  bleed: 12pt,
  content-width: 4in,
  content-height:3in,
)

#show: markly.page-setup.with(markly-context)

// Here the local title template uses markly's to-bleed
#let title(body, inset-y:12pt) = {
  markly.to-bleed(text(white, size:2.5em, body), markly-context)
}

#title[Bannar]

- Content

For a more detailed example, see main.typ and main.pdf.

Notes

Margins

Markly defaults to a mode of operation where content you add is offset from the cut lines kinda like page.margin. This margin is controlled by margin-width and margin-height which default to .2in. In this mode you can add a background color for a title all the way to the bleed lines using to-bleed without affecting these margins.

If you want full control of the content and will manage the margins inside the content you add, set margin-width and margin-height to -bleed like this:

#let bleed = 9pt
#let markly-context = markly.setup(
  content-width:7in,
  content-height:5in,

  bleed:bleed,

  margin-width:-bleed,
  margin-height:-bleed,
)

With this code, the cursor will start the top left of the bleed box.

Limitations

Since this is a bit difficult to do there are some limitations to using this package. Here are a few examples:

• inside/outside margins don't work on pages
• The background field of the page can't be used unless there is a wrapper function so that marks is called also.

Usage

Setup

Use setup to create a "context", a dictionary with parameters that is passed to other markly methods.

The stock width and height is your actual paper size.

Parameter	Default Value
stock-width	8.5in
stock-height	11in

The content width and height will be the size of the paper after cutting along the cut marks (black).

Parameter	Default Value
content-width	6in
content-height	4in

The margin width and height are the amounts between the edge of the cut line and the start of the content. NOTE: total width consumed by margins equals 2 * margin-width since it's used on both sides of the content. Same for height.

Parameter	Default Value
margin-width	6in
margin-height	4in

bleed is the distance between the cut line and bleed line, or the over-print amount that can occur because we have extra paper past the cut line.

Parameter	Default Value
bleed	9pt

Three parameters control which marks are drawn

Parameter	Default Value
bleed-marks	true
cut-marks	true
registration-marks	true

#let markly-context = markly.setup(
  // stock-width:8.5in,
  // stock-height:11in,

  content-width:7in,
  content-height:5in,

  // bleed:9pt,

  // margin-width:.2in,
  // margin-height:.2in,

  // bleed-marks:true,
  // cut-marks:true,
  // registration-marks:true,
)

// Configure the page to draw marks
#show: markly.page-setup.with(markly-context)

content...

Print to Bleed Templates

Use to-bleed, to-bleed-left, or to-bleed-right to paint a background to the bleed marks.

Use img-to-bleed to stretch an image horizontally and vertically to the bleed marks. The position of the "cursor" is not updated (like in the case of a background image) since it uses the place function.

Design

Cetz is used to draw the marks on the page's background.