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Guidelines & Cutting Explained
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At Overnight Prints we allow printing to the edge of the products and we take pride in having the tightest cutting margins available. These margins are 1/16 of an inch and are named full-bleed (green line) and safe zone (red line) .

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.



The following sample business cards demonstrate some of the common mistakes while designing and the resulting printed product.

Background image does not extend to bleed zone

In the following sample image, the background image only extends to the trim zone instead of the bleed zone. Due to cutting tolerances, one possible result is a business card with an unaligned while border it. If the original design had included a background which covered the all zones, the resulting card would not have this undesired background.
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Text is not within safe zone

In the following sample image, the text of the business card extends beyond the safe zone. Objects that are not in the safe zone may be cut off and lead to undesired results.
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Text is flush with safe zone boundary

In the following sample image the text of the business card has been placed flush against the boundary of the safe zone. Since it is still within the safe zone, it will not be cut off however, due to cutting tolerances, it is possible that the final result will have the text right against the edge of the product. To avoid this, Overnight Prints recommends that the text and other graphical objects should be placed well within the safe zone and designers should leave some space between the objects and safe zone boundary.

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