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Bleeds at Printing

The professional printing uses paper that is larger than the final page size. This lets printing images over the trim edge. One say about this, that an image “bleeds” over the edge. An image may bleed (extend) off one or more sides.
Imagine, that you need to print a booklet cover on which an artwork touches cover sides. After printing and trimming, you may get unwanted white edges if the print or trim operation was off-centered. When an image bleeds beyond the page edges, unwanted white edges will not appear.

The images below demonstrate how the bleed control works.
In the left picture, Bleed = 0. The software trims the artwork right along the label edge.
In the right picture, Bleed = 2 mm. The artwork will be printed 2 mm beyond the label edge.

Bleed0    Bleed2