Affinity Designer does not print bleed area when using art boards

[Robby Poole]

I have run into a small almost non-issue. At my place of employment we use utilize custom made name plates. I make them for a lot of people. Generally, I print them on card stock, and then trim them down using a paper cutter. Problem is, sometimes I don't cut exactly perfect. To make them fit in the holders sometimes requires a lot of manual trimming at the end. This led me to do some searching on Google about full bleed prints. While I knew of full bleed before, I never thought about treating these name plates in a similar manner.

 

So today, I create a document with many art boards. I include a bleed of 0.125 inches (1/8"). I attempt to print one of the art boards with the bleed marks, and the print does not have a bleed area. I see the bleed mark, but the color does not go into the bleed area. I created a new file, added bleed marks, and it did print into the bleed area. I have noticed through numerous test it seemed to affect art boards, despite having a bleed set.

 

Is this a bug, or "working as designed"? Does any body know how to not have this happen?

 

Thanks in advance,

Robby 

[MC909]

When you go to print, are you selecting the options to actually print the bleed and crop marks? Sometimes it is easy to forget to select these options.

See the screenshot attached.

[Robby Poole]

Yes I have that selected. In fact I have them all selected, just to be on the safe side in my test.

 

When I have a single document, and I drag a rectangle out to the bleed area, I can see on the screen the size of the rectangle. When I have a setup that includes multiple art boards, I cannot see the colored rectangle all the way to bleed area.

 

Robby

[Robby Poole]

I just did a test. Created a document, and "create art board" when I did it. I placed a green rectangle over the bleed. You cannot see the bleed area, but it prints the bleed area when you print. I added a second art board. Same thing, drew a green rectangle over the bleed area, just as the first you cannot see it. But when I print art board 2 only, it does not print the bleed area. 

 

Robby

[thomaso]

A search for "Designer bleed" shows various threads since years, some of them for V2 and recently logged by Serif as afb-6838  …

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=AFB-6838

[Robby Poole]

I tried searching for this topic, and I couldn't find anything. The link you showed seemed specific to Publisher and not Designer, that is why I started this thread.

 

Thank you for sharing this.

 

Robby

[MC909]

4 hours ago, Robby Poole said:

Yes I have that selected. In fact I have them all selected, just to be on the safe side in my test.

 

When I have a single document, and I drag a rectangle out to the bleed area, I can see on the screen the size of the rectangle. When I have a setup that includes multiple art boards, I cannot see the colored rectangle all the way to bleed area.

 

Robby

I've just tried this and I see what you mean with the additional artboards. That is a weird bug! I always export artboards as PDFs for printing, so I've never seen this before. Sorry I couldn't help.

[Robby Poole]

No need to apologize. I am actually glad you have the same issue, now I know I am not losing my mind.

 

Thank you for your help in trying to diagnosis the issue, and thank you for testing it as well.

 

Robby

[Lee D]

@Robby PooleI believe I've found this issue logged against Designer in our system, which I've added your report to.