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BleedsA bleed refers to printing a color copy from one edge of the paper to the other without the standard borders by which most personal printers are limited. This is useful for printing brochures, posters, and other marketing materials. Often the paper is trimmed after printing to ensure the toner or ink runs fully to the edge and does not stop short of it. Visual GuideBelow is guide on how to properly setup your file for Bleeds.  In order to print your file with a full bleed, there must be an additional 1/2" added to the overall dimensions. In FIG. 1 the file is setup at 9" x 11.5", the red shaded area will be cut off and the resulting final product will be FIG. 2, an 8.5" x 11" sheet with no white margins. This bleed setup works for any size document that you don't want a white margin on. No Bleed Setup If you are printing a file that doesnt bleed and your content goes to the edges of the document (see FIG. 3), your file will be shrunk to adjust for the 1/4" white margin when it is printed. The resulting final product will be FIG. 4, an 8.5" x 11" sheet with a minimum of a 1/4" margin on all sides. When you are setting up your file it is best to know before hand if you want your document to have a bleed. This way you will know exactly how your document will look once printed and there will be no surprises when you receive the finished product.
Tri-Fold / Letter Fold
  Letter folding, also known as Tri-Fold or Brochure Fold, is the most common folding type. This fold will take an 8.5x11 sheet and fold it twice so that it will fit inside a #10 envelope. Type Out, by definition, applies to all double sided fliers. Type Out and Type In only matter when we're talking about a single sided flier. Type Out means that the printing will face Out after being folded.
Half Fold
 The paper is folded in half. This is most popular for newsletters, where a double-sided 11x17 sheet becomes four 8.5x11 pages after being folded. This is also popular for menus and greeting cards.
Z-Fold
 Also known as the accordion fold. This option folds a sheet into three evenly-sized panels that fold together like an accordion. Popular for menus, pamphlets and information brochures, or any type of sheet that needs to be inserted into a standard-sized envelope.
Double Parallel Fold
 This is where a sheet is folded in four spots, so that the two panels on one half fit neatly into the fold on the other half of the sheet. This is typically for legal-sized sheets (8.5x14) so they can fit inside #10 envelopes.
Gate Fold
 This is where the sheet is folded twice so that when unopened, the panels fold outward like the shutters on a window. This is most popular for invitations or fancy informational pamphlets.
Stapled Booklet - Saddle-Stitch
 The most basic and commonly used binding for periodicals, booklets, annual reports, etc. This type of binding is achieved by collating oversized printed sheets then half folding and stapling them at the spine. For example a four page 8.5" x 11" magazine is made up of 2 11" x 17" sheets printed double sided.
Perfect - Glue
 Perfect binding is commonly used for catalogs, directories and paperback books. It involves stacking a number of pages on top of each other, then "roughing" (grinding) the spines of the pages before applying glue, so that the glue bonds the spine of the book better, and wrapping the cover around it. For more information on Perfect Bound Books and how to set up covers and spines click here.
Comb - GBC
 As with perfect binding, the pages for a comb bound book are stacked, but that is where the similarity ends. After the pages are properly collated with or without heavy covers and/or clear plastic covers and black vinyl backs they are punched with a series of rectangular holes through the spine and then a plasic comb spine is inserted through the holes to hold the pages together.
Spiral
 Spiral binding is a similar process to comb binding in that the pages are properly collated with or without heavy covers and/or clear plastic covers and black vinyl. However, instead of punching rectangular holes through the spine, slightly oval holes are punched through the spines. We then wind a durable plastic coil through the holes in a spiral to hold the pages together.
3-Hole Drilling
 Three-hole punching is intended for use in three ring binders. We print your color or B&W copies on the paper of your choice. We then "punch" three standard-size holes along the far left margin to allow the pages to be inserted into a three-ring binders. We can provide the binders as well, or you assemble the books in your own binders in-house.
Stapled
  Although not usually thought of as binding. We can staple your copies together either by one staple in the top left corner of your document, or we can staple twice on the left side. Please note the difference between 2 staples on the left and booklet binding as booklets are printed on oversized paper and bookletized. We can staple a maximum of 45 sheets of paper together.
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