Printing terms explained

Understanding bleed

We could go into this in some depth, but someone has kindly done it for us…

Understanding Bleed (Wikipedia)

We need bleed on every job that you send to us, so please – if you’re not sure and want your job to run smoothly, read this first!

What is CMYK?

Much of our printing is carried out in process colours – commonly known as CMYK.  Want to understand more?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model

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