: Is bleed measured from trim or safe? Just trying to follow the document upload specs for one of the web's largest online printers and bleed has confused me. Their instructions are shown at

Just trying to follow the document upload specs for one of the web's largest online printers and bleed has confused me.

Their instructions are shown at the bottom of the diagram which shows close ups of their Illustrator template. (My doc will be in InDesign which they don't have a template for.)

Ignoring heights, their Illustator template matches their full bleed width (282 mm) and trim width (279 mm), which I would have thought is a 1.5mm bleed.

But then they say to use a 0.137" (=3.5mm) bleed, which is what the template shows from the safe area and more in line the typical 1/8" bleeds I've come across in past.

What am I missing?

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@Ogunnowo857

From a regular printers perspective, bleed is always measured from trim.

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@Ravi4787994

I've never seen bleed measured from safe.

In my experience, it's always measured from trim, and typically from 3mm to 6mm. As Scott has said, additional bleed usually won't be an issue.

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