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__Full Bleed Printing
What is full bleed printing? What does full bleed printing mean?
Everything starts as a blank canvas
This is NOT full bleed printing. White strips will be visible around your card after it is cut.
This is what printers try to sell you because a full bleed job is expensive to them so they are limited
This is a full bleed job printed by BlockbusterPrint© Image(s) must go beyond print boundaries.

At Blockbuster Print we allow printing to the edge of the products and we take pride in having the tightest cutting margins available. These margins are 0.25 of an inch or 0.125 on each side.

Example: A 4x6 postcard design should have a full canvas size of 4.25 x 6.25. When the card is trimmed down it will have a finished size of 4 x 6.

Trim Marks
The product will be cut on the trim mark (blue line), however the cut may shift up to 1/16 of an inch in any direction.

Full Bleed
If you wish to have colored backgrounds or images continue to the edge of the product they must continue past the trim marks to the full bleed margin. If they do not continue to the full bleed margin you most likely will end up with white strips along the edge of the product due to cutting tolerance.

Safe Zone
The text or other elements you want to guarantee not to be trimmed off must be placed within the safe zone. If they are placed directly next to the trim mark and the cutting is off but within tolerance, the text will be chopped off.



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