Does it automatically bleed?

[spncity]

Reposting this question here as well - because I'm not sure it went through
Oct. 26th

Hi all

I "think" I'm seeing this correctly - I'm setting up a small gift book to
print "two-up". The finished size is 6" wide by 4" high. Two of these
books print in a 6" wide by 9" high space - with an inch in between for
trimming apart.

So, I'm setting my page to be 6" wide by 9" high.

So here's the question:

Do I see correctly that it is allowing me about an eighth of an inch of
bleed on the outside edges of the page? (If this is true - that's good -
that's what I want).

Thanks for replies.

spncity

 

[Mike Bailey]

1/8" is the standard bleed for commercial print on a press (minimum
acceptable is 1/16"). If you have the 'Bleed' box checked in the advanced
print settings in Publisher it will do it correctly, as long as you have
bleed on the document.

If you are sending the job to a commercial shop make sure that they do want
you to impose the job (set it two up on an letter size sheet), most shops
have imposition software and prefer imposing the job themselves to their
particular specs (depending on the press they are running it on, the run
length, and size availability of the paper). If you are familiar with
Publisher's imposition set up you can change the default settings (and sheet
size) to impose it in Publisher (which I do sometimes), for instance I might
run the job 4 up on 11x17 with ‘custom’ gutters.

Mike Bailey
Richmond BC.