Printing a newsletter in 8.5x11 - designer gave 8.7x11.2

Question

Hi all,

For work, I had a designer design a newsletter for our organization. The newsletter will be printed on 8.5x11, but the file is in 8.7x11.2. I know documents should be 3mm larger for bleed, but this is 5.08mm? This designer has made the newsletter in the past for us and they've also been in 8.7x11.2, and the print has worked..

My question is is this standard practice and the printer will know what to do to keep the formatting correct, without too much being cut off? If further clarification is needed please ask as I'm not too sure I'm explaining myself clearly.

davescm · Accepted Answer

If specified as 3mm bleed then that normally means 3mm on each of the four edges i.e the length and width will each be 6mm longer than the trimmed version. In addition a safe area inside the trimmed size is normally used so that essential print does not extend to the trimmed edge.

Dave

Derek Cross · Answer

When setting up a document you always start with the TPS (trimmed page size) to which you add bleed, normally 3mm/1/8" but some printers want more. Check with your printer.

Photoshop isn't really the application to produce multipage text heavy documents, like newsletters in, InDesign is the application that should be used for these.

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