What's a bleed?

Posted 22 February 2010 in the graphic-design category

Me: oh thanks for printing these.. um, I included a bleed how come there’s white space?
Printer: what’s a bleed?
Me: um, where the colour goes to the edge of the page
Boss listening in: there’s no lazer printer in the WORLD that does a bleed girl, they print it bigger and guillotine it
Me: em, can you do that for me then please, i don’t really care how it’s done to be honest
Boss: but you didn’t give us the document in a bigger size
Me: I included a 10mm bleed on what I sent
Boss: oh right *disappears
Me: era it’s grand, I’ll take it anyway (they clearly have never guillotined anything and have little idea what i’m on about)
Staff: sorry about that, I can discount the lamination tho, it’s probably a more commercial printer that can do a bleed for you, sorry I didn’t know what it was
Me: no worries :)

Why not just say, you can get bleed done elsewhere, but WE don’t do it! Easy!!

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