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What is a bleed?

How many times have you been asked does your document bleed? A bleed is when any part of the image, text or graphic, is printed to the edge of the page. To achieve a bleed on a printed document we will print your document on a larger piece of paper, then the edges will be trimmed off of the paper right up to the image so you have the look of the image printing to the edge of the page.

It is best if you can build your document to include extra image that can be trimmed away. This is so that when multiple sheets are stacked together and trimmed there will be no white space left around the edges. For example, if you are developing an 8½ x 11 flyer that bleeds you will want to create the document size at 8¾ x 11¼.

Illustration of document bleeds

 

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Must I use Printing Services?

What type of file formats...

Why must I include my fonts?

My graphics are embedded...

Why are my graphics blocky?

What are color separations?

What is a bleed?

How much will my job cost?

How to upload large files

How to count originals

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Use of University logos & seals

How to fill out the order forms

Proofreading marks

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