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- [Voiceover] In this

movie, we'll discuss another



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very important item that

you need to consider



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before printing a document,

and that is bleed.



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And bleed becomes very, very important.



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That's B-L-E-E-D, by the way.



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It becomes very important

any time you're printing



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all the way to the edges

of a piece of paper.



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So in the case of this logo, for example,



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I'll press Control+0,

or Command+0 on the Mac,



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to zoom out so that I can see

the edges of the art board.



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We don't need bleed where

this logo is concerned,



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and that's because I'm

not printing the artwork



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to the very edges of the paper.



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All the artwork, as you can

see, is surrounded by white,



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and that is paper white, incidentally.



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And if you wanna confirm

that, then you can go



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to the View menu and choose

Show Transparency Grid,



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that command that we saw

in the previous movie,



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and in this case I still have

my light checkerboard pattern.



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But in any event, wherever

you see that checkerboard,



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that indicates transparency

inside the document.



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And because we have transparency



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all the way to the edge of the art board,



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we don't need to worry about bleed.



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Compare that to this document right here.



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And so if I press Control+0,

or Command+0 on the Mac,



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you can see that I'm printing all the way



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to the edges of the art board.



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And the art board is your indicator



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of the page size,

incidentally, and we'll see



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what that means in more

detail in later movies.



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But for now, just consider what



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could happen if you don't have a bleed.



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Now you might look at this and say,



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"Hey, I'm totally covered here



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"because I have all this extra artwork."



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Well, Illustrator doesn't actually see



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that extra artwork until you add



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a bleed to your document.



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And the reason this is so important



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is best demonstrated in Photoshop.



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So I'm gonna go ahead and switch over



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to Photoshop for a moment, and notice



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that I have three layers

here inside my layers panel,



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the bottom-most of which is called Paper.



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And so that paper layer represents



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the white paper in the background.



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Now go ahead and turn on this

No Bleed layer right here,



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which is my artwork without a bleed.



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And notice what happens if

I switch to the move tool,



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which is located up here

at the top of the tool box.



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And if you're not that

familiar with Photoshop,



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don't worry about it, this is just a demo.



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But notice what happens if I go ahead



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and click on that layer to make it active,



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and then I drag it a little bit like so.



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I'm gonna reveal that white

paper in the background.



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Now it's probably not gonna look that bad,



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it's gonna look more like this,



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let's say, with just a little bit



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of extra white right there at the edge.



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And this is a function of

what's known as misregistration.



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And so, any commercial

printer is gonna do their best



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to make sure that they

register your artwork



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to the page, but they do need

a little bit of latitude.



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And that latitude is provided

in the form of bleed.



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And so to demonstrate

what that looks like,



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I'll go ahead and turn

off this No Bleed layer



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and turn off the With

Bleed layer right there.



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And notice if I click on

it and drag it around,



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even though I'm moving

this artwork on the page,



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I'd have to move it really

far to expose white paper.



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But if I just move it a little bit,



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then by virtue of the

fact that I have a bleed,



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I'm gonna reveal extra artwork.



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So the whole purpose of the bleed



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is to give you a little

bit of extra leeway



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in the event of misregistration,

which happens all the time.



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It's just a natural function of printing,



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whether you're printing locally,



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to an inkjet printer, for example,



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or whether you're submitting the artwork



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to a commercial printer.



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And so to set up a bleed, what you do



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is you switch back to

Illustrator, of course,



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and then you make sure your

black arrow tool is selected



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up here at the top of the tool box,



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and then you click on

the Document Setup button



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up here in the control panel.



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And this is something you wanna do



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every single time you plan

on printing your artwork



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all the way to the edges of the art board.



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And this, by the way, counts

whether you're printing



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to one edge, or all four edges.



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It's still something you wanna do.



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And so notice this Bleed

option right there.



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Just go ahead and select

any one of these values.



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Make sure that the link icon is turned on,



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assuming that you wanna set

a bleed all the way around,



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and then just dial in

something like .25 in



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and press the Tab key and you'll see



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that gets converted to 18 points.



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Now 18 points is a ton of bleed.



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Most commercial printers

don't need anything like that.



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But, if you ask me,

better safe than sorry.



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And so I'll just go ahead and

crank that bleed value up to



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a quarter inch, that is 18

points, and then click OK.



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And now you can see this

red border right here,



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which represents the bleed,

and that's gonna give you



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a little bit of extra wiggle room.



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That's gonna come in very handy



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when you print this

document, at which point,



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you wanna go up to the File menu



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and choose the Save command,



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or if you wanna give this

file a different name,



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go ahead and choose Save As instead



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because the bleed is an attribute



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that's saved along with your document.



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And that's how you add a bleed,



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which is something that you wanna do



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every single time you're considering



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borderless printing

here inside Illustrator.