Printing with a bleed?

Legend · Post by **Legend** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:01 pm

Is there a way to print with a bleed in PI10? I don't want the white border on a certain project I am printing.

Is this possible?

greenboy · Post by **greenboy** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:39 pm

I haven't printed from PI directly. but isn't that more the province of a particular printer driver and printer? Some won't print to the edge, period. Either because the driver or hardware won't allow.

Also. bleeds are desktop-publishing oriented, perhaps something one needs to set up in a sophisticated page layout program after importing graphics onto a page there?...

Legend · Post by **Legend** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:10 pm

greenboy wrote:I haven't printed from PI directly. but isn't that more the province of a particular printer driver and printer? Some won't print to the edge, period. Either because the driver or hardware won't allow.

Also. bleeds are desktop-publishing oriented, perhaps something one needs to set up in a sophisticated page layout program after importing graphics onto a page there?...

I guess both would be possible, but I figured since PI has several "more print" templates and functions, they might include some type of "print to edge" option.

bwilderbeast · Post by **bwilderbeast** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:00 pm

For borderless printing open Print Preview and click on the Modify Printable Area button (it's a green tick in PI 10). You can adjust the XY offsets from there.

Legend · Post by **Legend** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:12 pm

bwilderbeast wrote:For borderless printing open Print Preview and click on the Modify Printable Area button (it's a green tick in PI 10). You can adjust the XY offsets from there.

Good to know, thanks

greenboy · Post by **greenboy** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:58 pm

A bleed, however, is when the edges of a cut piece are actually printed beyond. Then the paper is cut to the specified size of the job. Not the same as borderless; this is how color-to-edge magazines and coffee table books etc have been printed.

With modern consumer photo printers able to print borderless pages all that matters is that the particular printer driver is able to use the full capacity of the hardware, and that it handles placement/registration accurately.

bwilderbeast · Post by **bwilderbeast** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:18 pm

Thanks for the explanaition of "Bleed", I didn't know that.