PRINTING WITH BLEEDS FINAL PRINT PRODUCT PDF

If you are unsure on which preset to save your PDF out as, just get in contact with us and we'll be able to help. In this section, ticking 'Trim Marks' and 'Use Document Bleed Settings' will export your file with the bleed area and crop marks on the document as to where the finished size needs to be trimmed. If using Adobe Illustrator, when you export to PDF there is a section named ‘Marks and Bleeds’. So you would want to set your page up at 154x216mm, then place a margin or ruler guide along the finished size edge to ensure you don’t place any text in the bleed area as this area will get trimmed down. Your finished size would be 148x210mm with a bleed area of 3mm.

PRINTING WITH BLEEDS FINAL PRINT PRODUCT SOFTWARE

If this seems too difficult, or your design software doesn't have this, you would want to set up a custom-sized page that is your finished size, plus your required bleed area.įor example, if you were designing an A5 flyer. Most industry-standard design software, such as Adobe Illustrator, gives you the ability to add a bleed to your document setup. If you're not sure how much bleed you need, just send us a message or drop us a call and we're more than happy to help inform you about the amount of bleed your print would need. Normally, the bleed amount for small documents, ( business cards, flyers and hang tags) is 3mm. Bleed is always applied, no matter what the size of the print.

This concept is applied across the board for printing, whether it is a flyer, invitation or some business cards. Having this bleed area prevents this from happening and ensures having a nice clean trim edge to the cards.

It only needs to be out by a fraction to show. This is due to the possibility of the printer or the guillotine being out of alignment. As we've mentioned, if we had no bleed area on your business cards, when trimmed down there is a high chance of having thin white lines along the edges. The real reason we need bleed in printing is actually down to tolerances on machines. The most common page size printed on is SRA3 please refer to our blog post regarding SRA3 paper. Then the page is trimmed down to your final size. As printers, we always print on paper that is larger than the finished size. You’re now probably questioning how we can print an A5 flyer onto an A5 piece of paper, but also add 3mm to the final size dimensions? The answer is simple. So, now we know that full-bleed printing refers to printing beyond your crop marks. You'd then extend the pink background to this new size so that it bleeds over the edge of your final trim size.

You would include a 3mm bleed area around all of your artwork, this would make your actual artwork size 88x58mm. So, if you were wanting to print your pink background on business cards, which are 85x55mm in size. If we didn't have bleed, and cut down your artwork even a fraction off of the trim line, you'd then have white edges showing on your artwork where you actually wanted pink all the way up to the edges. This is so that when we perform the final trim of your business cards, we have 3mm of 'extra room' after the trim line. For example, if you wanted to have a pink background across all of your business card, you'd actually need to extend the pink background over the edge of your final size. In short, bleed is a printing term that refers to the area that is printed beyond the edge of the finished page size.

What is bleed? A question we come across many times a week over the phone or email.

Printing with bleeds final print product