Bleed and safe areas ensure your artwork prints correctly and is not cut off. On the Customize screen in Avery Design & Print Online and Avery WePrint most Avery product templates show three lines.
The thickest solid gray line represents the edge of the label or card. This is also called the Cut Line.
The inner dashed line shows the Safety Area. Any text or images that you want printed should be inside this line.
The outer dotted line is the Bleed Line. For full-bleed, print-to-edge products, your background or image should extend to this line or beyond.
If there is a visible pink line, it represents a fold line or an embossing line for a label or card.
- Our downloaded templates for programs like Word, Illustrator, and Photoshop do not show the safety area or bleed for the product. We recommend a bleed of 1/8" over the edge and to keep important items such as logos well inside the bounds of the label.
Note: If you are printing at home, your PDF may show your round label turn into a square or oval label turn into a rectangle. This is showing that design is properly bleeding past the label for printing.
Avery's Artwork Guidelines provide more information.