Designing a Document to Produce a PrintReady PDF

It is necessary for full bleed documents to be slightly larger than the final print size. 1/8" is trimmed from the finished copies. We recommend that all important elements inside your document be kept 1/4" away from the physical edge of the page. This guarantees that no element is removed during the cropping process.

 


Detailed Measurements

 

Media Type

Final Size

Your Source File Dimensions Should Measure:

Jumbo Cards

8.5” x 5.5”

8.75” x 5.75”

Important elements kept within 8” x 5”

Standard Cards

5.5” x 4.25”

5.75” x 4.5”

Important elements kept within 5” x 3.75”

Panoramic Cards

11” x 5.67”

11.25” x 5.92”

Important elements kept within 10.5” x 5.17”

Business Cards

3.5” x 2”

3.625” x 2.125”

Important elements kept within 3.43” x 1.93”

Flyers

8.5” x 11”

8.75” x 11.25”

Important elements kept within 8” x 10.5”

Bookmarks

2” x 7.25”

2.125” x 7.375”

Important elements kept within 1.75” x 7”

Legal-Size

8.5” x 14”

8.75” x 14.25”

Important elements kept within 8” x 13.5”

Ledger-Size

11” x 17”

11.25” x 17.25”

Important elements kept within 10.5” x 16.5”

Designing Booklets
When uploading files to create booklets, pages should be individually uploaded as a multiple-page file (not in paginated or “spread” format) for each particular finished booklet size. Booklets must be 8 pages minimum, 72 pages maximum and the number of pages must be divisible by 4. Here is an example of how to count pages. The pages should be uploaded in the order in which they should print as all booklets will be paginated after file is received.