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Old 03-10-2009, 08:07 AM   #208
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[What's a bleed area?]
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Wikipedia is a little misleading.

"Bleed" is additional image that extends beyond the trimmed edge. By printing this extra 1/8" of image, it allows for minor movement tolerances in post-press cutting. Without the bleed, one runs the risk of seeing a very small, but usually quite noticeable white edge where the image is supposed to run off (bleed) the edge of the paper.

What Snowflake was referring to ("The text runs a bit too close to the bleed area on the top and bottom...") was keeping live copy away from the trim. While typically it is suggested that "live copy" (text and images where it would be highly noticeable if they were clipped) be kept 1/8" away from the final trim edge, often times from a design aesthetic, one will keep type further away than that. From the looks of it - the type is more than 1/8" from trim, but I agree that it needs to be just a little bit more.

Hey: I have a bachelor's degree in this crap: it isn't too often I get to show it off in public.

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It's a female thing.
Well, there is that too/
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