Bleed & Safe Margins

June 15, 2009 at 3:34 pm | Posted in Print | Leave a comment
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bleedWhen comes to printing it’s very important to keep in mind a few basic rules. Imagine you have a flyer of 100×100 mm and you want to send it to a professional printer. Now think at a big scale because they won’t take a letter size paper and print 2 flyers on it, they have giant roles of paper and the purpose is to print as many flyers at once. If you put one flyer near another without bleed there is a big chance that the cutting machine won’t be that acurrate and your flyer will have white margins or graphics from the flyer that was near. So bleed is that extra 3 or 5 mm of printing that goes beyond the edge of the sheet after trimming. Bleed it’s a MUST for professional printers.

The Safe Margins are those 3 or 5 mm margins that we use as a refference not to cross over with any important graphics or text and the reason for this is the same, the cutting machine is not 100% accurate and you don’t want to risk to have your text trimmed because it was to close to the margins.

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