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Setting trim size and bleed

Setting trim size and bleed - Illustrator Tutorial

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Setting trim size and bleed

I've restored the original version of Ghost Robot outlines.ai, found inside the 11_printing folder. And in this exercise, we're going to s visit what are potentially the most important topics where commercially reproducing your artwork is concerned, and that is Trim Size and Bleed Size. So here is the idea. You can see that black outline right there, that represents the limitations of the Artboard. The image actually extends beyond the edges of the Artboard into the Bleed zone. And I'll explain what that means in just a moment. But for now, just visualize this, when you turn this job into a commercial printer, they are going to take this document and they are going to output it on these enormous pieces of paper. So they will reproduce many versions of these Artboards on these big sheets of paper. Then they will go ahead and cut your actual pages, your Artboards here, out of those big pieces of paper, and that's called trimming the page, because they're trimming away the edges, and…

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