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Bleed is the portion of your artwork file at the very edge that extends beyond the trim lines. The bleed area will be cut off in the printing process.

When having something professionally printed, multiple pages are printed on one larger sheet of  paper, and then that printed paper is trimmed into individual page spreads (or brochures, or posters, etc.). When your artwork spans the entire size of your page, if you don’t have a bit extra that you expect to be cut off (the bleed), you might end up with a white edge appearing on the trim line of the finished piece.

It’s important that any backgrounds or images that touch the edge of the printed piece ‘bleed’ outside of the trim line to make sure that when it’s trimmed after print there is no risk of a white edge appearing on the finished piece.

We advise 3mm bleed on all artwork

We prefer a single PDF file made up of multiple pages, but we like to be as flexible as possible, which is why you can upload your files with us as single or multi-page PDF, we accept Tiff and JPG formats.

For the best results, make sure that your colours are in CMYK and that your images that are between 150 – 300dpi (dots per inch).