How to print crop marks, but keep the cut as A4 paper

I was asked to create a brochure, although I normally do web development. So I installed InDesign a week, with no prior experience. I did created the brochure, created a PDF high resolution (using export) and sent to printing, assuming that it would be sufficient. It didn't: they must "impression of brands" (says my client), I'll assume that is crop marks.

So I thought that everything I could on works bleeding and slightly modified my design to accommodate that (I got a few horizons towards the edges). But the question I have now is that I don't know how to create a PDF file with the right dimensions: A4 for the resulting page and crop around her landmarks.

My Document configuration is set to A4 size (not counting the bleed). It is in the mm, so 210 x 297 mm. The purge is set to 3 mm on all sides. Slug is set to 0.

So I'm going to file > print (in PDF), under Configuration to scale to 100% and marks and purge check "of crop marks. But the problem is that my design already covers the entire area of the A4, so the crop markers to add 'outside' of it. It does not, because "Paper size" corresponds to A4, as well as crop marks are not printed, they fall outside the print area (if my design is focused; it is top-left, I lose the right and down). Now, I can force it to print crop marks using "Scale to fit" - but then of course my page which is no longer not A4; evolving just everything down so that the crop are in the edges of a regular A4 format. But at least I see pretty brands he creates then.

I know that I need to print on A4 oversize, but I can't figure out how to get that. I could fix it manually by adding a number of mm to the width and height, but I read everywhere that InDesign is supposed to do it automatically. So I think there is an option somewhere that I can't find.

So my question is: where is the option to automatically increase my 'paper size' when printing to PDF, based on my configuration Document as well as the area for bleeds and crop marks?

(this seems a simple question that I am surprised, that I can't seem to Google an answer to this...)

Joris debonnet wrote:

So I'm going to file > print (in PDF)

This is your mistake. Use file > export... and choose Adobe PDF (Print) from the drop-down list type or file > Adobe PDF presets and choose the correct preset in the list based on that to your printer. Under the control of marks and bleeds box to use the settings of purge of paper and boxes for the brands you want - for sure, guides of crop possibly as well information page, and bars of color or brand registration request printer.

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