My uncle told me to always add bleed to my print files, and I finally get why

I sent a batch of 500 business cards to a local print shop last month without any bleed, thinking the design would just fit. The guy called me and said they all had thin white edges because the cut was off by a tiny bit. Has anyone else had a printer flat out refuse a job because the file wasn't set up right?

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nathand512d ago

Oh man, that's a classic. I once sent out a whole run of "apartment open house" flyers where the text got chopped off on one side. Looked like we were selling "luxury apart ents." The printer ran it anyway, so I guess I learned the expensive way.

henderson.hugo1d ago

Did you ever get any calls from people asking what an "apart ent" was? I read a story once about a restaurant menu that had "clam chowder" cut off to just "clam chow" and they had people asking if it was a new kind of chowder. Printers really should double check that stuff before running a big job, it feels like part of their job. That kind of mistake is so easy to miss when you've been staring at the design all day.