Stop the Bleed Confusion: A Guide to Bleeds in Professional Printing
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A Guide to Bleeds in Professional Printing PrintNinja | 877-396-4652 | www.printninja.com Copyright © 2013 PrintNinja LLC. All rights reserved. PrintNinja is a registered trademark of PrintNinja LLC. The PrintNinja logo and related marks are marks of PrintNinja LLC. This guide is provided as a conveience to PrintNinja customers and while every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy, PrintNinja cannot be responsible for any errors or omissions. This guide may contain references and examples that feature products,services or brands that are the intellectual property of others. These are included for illustrative purposes only and those products, services and brands do not endorse this guide or have any association with PrintNinja LLC.
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Read this guide that explains what exactly bleeds are, why they are important and how to make sure your document is set up with correct bleeds for professional printing.
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A Guide to Bleeds in Professional Printing
PrintNinja | 877-396-4652 | www.printninja.comCopyright © 2013 PrintNinja LLC. All rights reserved. PrintNinja is a registered trademark of PrintNinja LLC. The PrintNinja logo and related marks are marks of PrintNinja LLC.
This guide is provided as a conveience to PrintNinja customers and while every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy, PrintNinja cannot be responsible for any errors or omissions.This guide may contain references and examples that feature products,services or brands that are the intellectual property of others.
These are included for illustrative purposes only and those products, services and brands do not endorse this guide or have any association with PrintNinja LLC.
PrintNinja | 877-396-4652 | www.printninja.comCopyright © 2013 PrintNinja LLC. All rights reserved. PrintNinja is a registered trademark of PrintNinja LLC. The PrintNinja logo and related marks are marks of PrintNinja LLC.
This guide is provided as a conveience to PrintNinja customers and while every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy, PrintNinja cannot be responsible for any errors or omissions.This guide may contain references and examples that feature products,services or brands that are the intellectual property of others.
These are included for illustrative purposes only and those products, services and brands do not endorse this guide or have any association with PrintNinja LLC.
Stop the Bleed Confusion
IntroductionBleeds are an often misunderstood concept, but very important in the printing process. Bleed means printing excess color on the edges that will intentionally be cut off. Without bleeds, small white borders appear around the edge of your project, giving it a less polished look. Bleeds are always excess — they do not diminish your finished document size. Simply put, if any printed element goes to the edge of your page, a bleed must be included.
Q. What are bleeds?A. In printing, bleeds refer to excess material printed along the edge of a page. This ensures that no white lines are left along the edge of the page in your finished document after the cutting and binding process.
Q. Do I need bleeds?A. It’s easy to determine whether you need to account for bleeds or not in your design: do any printed elements go to the edge? If so, you need to account for bleeds.
Q. How do I make bleeds?A. Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign allow you to make bleeds during your document setup as shown in the video. When creating documents in Photoshop or Microsoft Publisher, bleeds must be handled manually. For more details, con-sult the PrintNinja Prepress Guide for your programs. The guides are available at http://pninja.co/nn6tB.
Q. Will bleeds make my document smaller?A. No, bleeds are excess and your finished document will be the ordered size. This means that the actual printed document is bigger than the finished document size, and the excess material will be trimmed off. In practical terms, this means that a US-Letter size catalog (8.5” x 11”) will be printed at 8.75” x 11.25”. After your catalog is bound, the bleeds will be trimmed to the designated finished size of 8.5” x 11”.
Q. Will my text be cut off?A. As long as your text remains inside your margins, it will not be cut off. Remember that margins should be at least .25” (1/4”) for a single page document and be even wider for thick, multi-page documents.
A Guide to Bleeds in Professional Printing
PrintNinja | 877-396-4652 | www.printninja.comCopyright © 2013 PrintNinja LLC. All rights reserved. PrintNinja is a registered trademark of PrintNinja LLC. The PrintNinja logo and related marks are marks of PrintNinja LLC.
This guide is provided as a conveience to PrintNinja customers and while every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy, PrintNinja cannot be responsible for any errors or omissions.This guide may contain references and examples that feature products,services or brands that are the intellectual property of others.
These are included for illustrative purposes only and those products, services and brands do not endorse this guide or have any association with PrintNinja LLC.
Check your skills!Which of the three documents below must include a bleed? Note: the black lines indicate edges and are not printed.
MAYOR OF LONDON Transport for London
Transport for London
Annual Report andStatement of Accounts2008/09
No bleed needed! All of the printed elements are contained within the margins and stay clear of the edges.
BLEED REQUIRED! Even though 95% of the image is contained in the margins, the black bar with “Annual Report” goes to the edge.
BLEED REQUIRED! The dark and light gray goes to the edge. This document needs a bleed.
PrintNinja | 877-396-4652 | www.printninja.comCopyright © 2013 PrintNinja LLC. All rights reserved. PrintNinja is a registered trademark of PrintNinja LLC. The PrintNinja logo and related marks are marks of PrintNinja LLC.
This guide is provided as a conveience to PrintNinja customers and while every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy, PrintNinja cannot be responsible for any errors or omissions.This guide may contain references and examples that feature products,services or brands that are the intellectual property of others.
These are included for illustrative purposes only and those products, services and brands do not endorse this guide or have any association with PrintNinja LLC.
Stop the Bleed Confusion
How do I know that my bleed is setup correctly?Remember, bleeds are excess printed material, meaning that the document must be bigger than it’s finished size. You will need to incorporate a bleed of 0.125" (1/8") on all sides of your document. In InDesign or Illustrator, you must enter separate bleed dimensions in the “bleed and slug” boxes as shown.
Your bleed is indicated by red lines OUTSIDE the white page area in InDesign or Illustrator. Ensure that your bleed elements go to the red bleed border as shown below.
Not OK The black stripe goes to the margin but has no bleed. To fix, drag the elements to the red line.
Good to Go! Everything is properly placed!
Good to Go! The bleed is excessive and goes past the red line, but that’s okay. Verify your margins to ensure that the excess bleed isn’t impacting other areas.
Questions or problems?Running into complications? Our designers are available for pre-press consulting services to guide you through the process or to work with you to completion. Visit our website for rates and details.
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