Print templates with the bleed already in them

Make the canvas 96 × 61mm for a card that finishes at 90 × 55mm. That is 3mm of bleed on all four edges. Keep text and logos at least 4mm inside the 90 × 55mm trim line, which works out at 7mm in from the edge of your 96 × 61mm canvas. The free business card template above has all three lines drawn on it, and business cards start at $119 for 500.

Yes, by making the canvas bigger. Canva cannot express bleed as a separate setting, so set a custom size in millimetres at the supply size — 96 × 61mm for a business card, 216 × 303mm for A4 — and run backgrounds off every edge. When you export, do not also tick a crop-marks-and-bleed option: your canvas already contains the bleed, and adding a second one moves the trim to the wrong place.

Because the page is already the bleed size, there is nowhere outside it to put marks. The PDF instead carries a trim box, which is the machine-readable version of the same information and is what a press actually reads. If you have a finished file that needs marks drawn onto it, our bleed and trim marks tool adds them in your browser.

Supply a pull-up banner at 850 × 2000mm with no bleed — the media is printed to the finished width. Keep everything that matters 15mm in from each side, 50mm down from the top and 100mm up from the bottom: the top goes into the rail and the bottom rolls into the cassette, so neither is visible once the banner is standing. The artwork still has to fill those zones, or a white strip shows when it is pulled up. Pull-up banners start at $160.

On a roll fold the panels wrap inside each other, so each panel has to be a millimetre narrower than the one it tucks into or it buckles against the fold. An A4 folded to DL is 100 / 99 / 98mm; an 8pp DL is 100.5 / 99.5 / 98.5 / 97.5mm. On the reverse that order mirrors — the narrowest panel, the flap that tucks in, sits on the left of side one and on the right of side two, and the front cover is the widest panel, on the right of side one. A Z fold concertinas instead, nothing wraps anything, so every panel is an equal 99mm. Every fold style above gets its own template, with a page per side.

396 × 210mm flat, which is four DL panels side by side, and 402 × 216mm once you add 3mm of bleed on every edge. It folds down to DL, 99 × 210mm. Eight pages means four panels a side, and how they fold decides the panel widths: a roll fold steps them 100.5 / 99.5 / 98.5 / 97.5mm because each one tucks inside the last, a Z fold keeps all four at 99mm because nothing tucks. Both 8pp DL templates are above. Set the whole 396mm sheet up as one canvas rather than four DL files — artwork that crosses a fold has to be continuous, and four separate files cannot be.

198 × 210mm flat — two DL panels — and 204 × 216mm with bleed. It folds down the middle to 99 × 210mm, giving four pages. Nothing wraps anything on a single crease, so both panels are an equal 99mm and there is no narrow panel to get the wrong way round. Keep copy 4mm clear of the centre fold on both sides: a score line through a word is the one thing you cannot fix after folding.

Yes, but not through the cart yet. Brochures price an A4 or A3 sheet folded in half or in thirds — half fold, Z-fold or roll fold — and a DL bi-fold or an 8pp DL is a different amount of paper and a different fold sequence, so it is quoted rather than priced online. Send the job through the quote form with the quantity and stock and you will have a price back the same way every other quote comes back. The templates above are free either way and are the same files we would send you.

Yes. Every order is checked before it goes to press and you see a proof before anything runs, so a file with a bleed problem gets picked up and fixed rather than printed. The templates and the free tools exist so you can find that out in thirty seconds instead of waiting for us to tell you, but nothing here is a hoop you have to jump through before ordering. And if the artwork will not sit right in the template, or something one of the tools produced is not right, send it over — we set the file up properly for print at no charge when the job is printed with us, and there is no setup fee on top of the print price.