Bleed, banners and panels

What it does

Bleed. Artwork runs past the cut line, a thirty-second of an inch on a sticker, so a cutter that wanders leaves colour and not a white edge. There is no separate bleed setting for stickers: the gap between pieces covers it. Press Bleed on the bar, then To the bleed on the zoom control, to see it.

Banner. On a stock with no liner, What you are making offers Banner: one print at its size, with nothing cut. The page is the print. It has no cut line and no registration marks, and the Cut and Job tabs say so in words rather than showing boxes that change nothing.

Panels. A banner too big for the roll, either way up, is printed in equal panels, as few as will do. Each has the stock's bleed, and they share an overlap at every seam. The Job tab says how many panels there are and how big. A Decal is the same one print on any roll that is not a board, cut round its edge along a trim line of its own.

Why it matters for your shop

• A wide banner needs no hand-made split. Studio plans the panels and the preflight and the hand-over use that same plan, so the pages you check are the pages the RIP is given.
• Seams are planned, not hoped for. Every panel has bleed and an overlap, and the hand-over lists every panel of every copy in the order the file holds them.
• Each copy is written into the file, because a hot folder carries no copy count.
• Mistakes are stops, not surprises. A second design on a banner is a stop. A banner is only offered on a stock with no liner.

How to use it

1. On Home press By material and choose a stock with no liner.
2. Choose Banner under What you are making.
3. Type a width on the Design tab. The page moves with it.
4. Open the Job tab to see the panel count. If it is wider than the roll, check the overlap, which is the stock's until you set another for this job.
5. Read the Preflight, then put the job on a press. The hand-over lists the panels.

Learn more

A banner wider than the roll is the how-to guide.