Guides

Short, practical notes on preparing a file for print.

• Bleed and Margin

  When preparing your book files for printing, paying close attention to the details of bleeds, margins, and safe areas is crucial to ensure your final product looks just how you env

• Book Margin

  1. Binding edge: a minimum margin of 20mm on the binding edge, and this will avoid losing information into the spine 2. The rest of 3 edges: a minimum margin of 10mm should also be

• Book Bleed

  1. Please add an additional 3mm of bleed to your artwork If any images or artwork goes right to the edge of the page, or “bleeds” off the page. 2. We might trim your pages short by

• Use PDF instead of word format

  1. PDFs are universal and this means that you can actually use it on all platforms whether Mac, Windows, iOS or Android unlike Word that may not work well on Mac systems. 2. PDF is