Bleed: What is bleed printing?

Bleed printing means printing from edge to edge. We also refer to this as borderless printing. This option is intended for documents with a full-page design to prevent white borders from appearing around the prints.

Example: with and without bleed printing

How are bleed prints made?

To create a borderless print, the file is printed on a sheet that is slightly larger than the desired final size. Then, it is "cleanly cut," causing the design to "bleed off the page," so to speak. You can provide the document with bleed and/or trim marks to ensure a cutting position. If this is not provided in the file, we enlarge the documents by 1%. This is not visible, but it gives us enough space to cleanly trim the bleed.