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Designing & Printing With BleedNeed to print without a border, but you keep getting a border on your printout?Many printed pieces such as business cards, postcards, posters and flyers are designed to have color printed right to the edge of the paper. A borderless piece has a finished look and feel over a printout with unsightly white borders around the edge. But are you getting a border when you print at home (or bring your job to an inexperienced or big-box copy shop)? This is because almost no printer can print to the edge of a sheet of paper. Instead, professional printers will print your pieces on larger sheets of paper or cardstock and cut them down to size. We also need the designed file to have a bleed to ensure a clean and crisp borderless print. At Mimosa Digital we can print borderless or full-bleed for any of our services. Pieces like business cards, postcards and posters print full-bleed standard (depending on some options), and others like flyers and booklets can be printed with an optional full-bleed for an extra fee. All of our print services can be ordered online. Full-bleed or bordered descriptions are given for each piece but you can request a quote for any non-standard printing needs. Listed below are many of our printing services, but feel free to explore our website for even more of our services. At the bottom of this page is a full explination of how to design for full bleed. If you files are not set up properly then even if you order full-bleed printing, we may not be able to do so. If you want our professional team of graphic designers to help you set up your files we are always here to help! What is a Bleed?Full-bleed printing means that you want your piece to be printed without borders from edge to edge. Bleed is that ink that goes beyond the edge of the paper after we trim it to the final size. By extending the ink beyond the trim, it helps compensate for any mechanical tolerances of the printing process, preventing an unwanted white border from showing at the edge. What is the Trim?Trim is the finished size of the document. The document is cut close to the trim line, but because of the mechanical tolerances involved in printing, the actual cut can happen anywhere between the bleed and the safety margin. This is why it is important to keep your text and important images within the safety margin. What is the Safety Margin?The area 1/8" inside the trim is the safety margin. Please make sure no critical images or text are placed in this area. This will ensure that nothing important will get cut off in the trimming process.
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Click below to download templates to help you design post cards:
For graphic designers using the Adobe suite, you an also download our retail color settings (csf) file as well as our PDF joboptions file for creating PDF files. |
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