Bleed

Bleed is printing that goes beyond the edge of the page. A standard bleed is 1/8 of an inch on each side. This means that when designing something where the ink goes off the edge of the page you need to create the document 1/4 inch larger than the finished size. I.E. an 8.5 x 11 brochure with bleeds should be designed as 8.75 x 11.25.