Okay so let’s look at this template one more time. This means you’ll need to be careful to plan out your cover with no important content in the TRIM / BLEED AREA as shown in our book cover template. Your cover is going to have art/ink right up to the edge. So a 6 x 9 book is printed at 6.25 x 9.25 and that extra ¼ inch is trimmed away – resulting in about ⅛ inch on each side (this includes the spine side) being cut away.įor most book interiors, this is minor because the pages are white or cream and the contents (your story) are nowhere near the edge of the page.Ĭovers are very different. What happens is that we print the pages for your book too large by ¼ inch. We call this edge the ‘Bleed Margin.’ You’ll notice on the template above it’s listed as the TRIM / BLEED AREA. The stack of pages, often called a book block, can be cut down precisely to get a clean finish.īut doing so means some small portion of the page is lost. Printers achieve this by printing the pages oversized, then trimming every page to the exact size. Bleed Edgeīooks, you may have noticed, are incredibly uniform. Let’s start with the basic trimming margins. We’re going to break this template down a bit and understand how to build your eye-catching book cover.
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