Abdushakur Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Hello. I am putting a small book together for the first time. The end result should be 125mm x 88mm. I am trying to figure out the bleed and margin dimensions for this end result but I can't seem to find references for anything smaller 4.25in x 7in. Can anyone provide a reference or offer some advice on how to determine the bleed and margin dimensions? I would appreciate it very much, thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 The Margins would be whatever you require for your design, I think. They are within the physical page, and so the printing company should not care about what you use. The Bleed would be whatever your printing company requires, so ask them. Abdushakur 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abdushakur Posted April 21, 2023 Author Share Posted April 21, 2023 31 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: The Margins would be whatever you require for your design, I think. They are within the physical page, and so the printing company should not care about what you use. The Bleed would be whatever your printing company requires, so ask them. Thanks for the reply. I haven't gone to any printers yet, but I was hoping to prepare the files accordingly before hand. Is there a minimum or maximum for the bleed? Also, for the margins, they can be whatever I need them to be, correct? Thank you again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 4 minutes ago, Abdushakur said: Is there a minimum or maximum for the bleed? The Bleed is part of the printed paper that will be trimmed off. A general (rule of thumb) size is 3 mm or 1/8th of an inch. You can make it larger but then the paper size would need to be larger which means higher cost simply to produce more waste. Set it for 1/8th of an inch. If necessary you can increase it later once you have found your printer/print shop. Changing the Bleed won't have any effect on the layout of the book. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.2 Affinity Designer 2.3.1 | Affinity Photo 2.3.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.3.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abdushakur Posted April 21, 2023 Author Share Posted April 21, 2023 3 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: The Bleed is part of the printed paper that will be trimmed off. A general (rule of thumb) size is 3 mm or 1/8th of an inch. You can make it larger but then the paper size would need to be larger which means higher cost simply to produce more waste. Set it for 1/8th of an inch. If necessary you can increase it later once you have found your printer/print shop. Changing the Bleed won't have any effect on the layout of the book. Excellent, thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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