my printers are asking me to ad 3mm to my leaflet but i havent a clue what they mean can anyone help?
2007-01-03 11:12:23 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Printers
A "Bleed" is where color goes all the way to the edge of the paper. It could be a background color, background for a text box or whatever....
2007-01-03 11:15:58 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
bleed :is a printing term that refers to a design that has ink printed all the way to the edge of the finished page
2007-01-03 14:28:38 · answer #2 · answered by bis 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If an image is designed to go to the edge of the paper after it is trimmed such as a full picture on an 8.5 x 11 inch page, then the image should actually go over the expected trim line. The image you need to give them should be 8.75 x 11.25. That way if their trimming knife is a little off, you won't have an unwanted white line along the edge.
2007-01-03 11:22:42 · answer #3 · answered by John H 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
the "bleed" refers to how close to the edge you need to go. like if you want to print with color all the way to the edge of the paper, most printers wont do that so you have to print your page and then cut it, but say you want to print 1,000 of them and you dont want to to sit there and cut them with scissors so you take it to kinkos and have them cut the 1,000 with a huge machine, that machine is not exact and some are going to get cut a little off center so if you dont have extra color going off larger than what you want kinkos to cut down to, then you will have a cockeyed white border showing very clearly that it wasnt cut exactly.
hope this helps...
2007-01-03 11:18:33 · answer #4 · answered by Punchy 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If the print goes to the very edge of the paper... no margin!
2007-01-03 11:15:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it means a 3 millimeter border.
Bleed generally means when your ink runs.
(P.S. Please don't copy my answer and re-answer the same question with the exact same information, to people below me :D)
2007-01-03 11:14:52 · answer #6 · answered by A: Ken 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋