Your printer asked for bleed and your file has none? Set the width they require below — any product, from business cards to banners — and download the fixed PDF. Files are deleted after processing.
Optional — tune the checks to your product. Locked once files are submitted.
Your report and proof appear here after you upload a file — free, no signup.
Filecheck adds bleed to every customer upload automatically — on your store, before files reach your print queue.
Automate this on your store →Filecheck does it automatically for every customer upload — on WooCommerce, Shopify, PrestaShop, OpenCart, or any site — before a bad file ever reaches your queue.
Type the number from your printer’s spec sheet — 3mm is common for small print, large format often wants 5–10mm. Pick how the new edge is filled: mirrored artwork, scaled artwork, or nothing.
Filecheck extends the artwork past the trim line and sets the trim and bleed boxes correctly — your design itself is never rescaled or moved.
Grab the fixed PDF and the before/after proof — free, no signup.
Bleed is artwork extended past the trim line so that when the printed sheet is cut, tiny cutting variations never leave a white sliver on the edge. There is no universal width — your printer's spec sheet wins — but the common asks are: 3 mm (or 0.125 in in the US) for business cards, flyers and brochures; 5 mm for perfect-bound covers and some digital presses; 5–10 mm for banners, roll-ups and other large format.
Bleed works together with the safe zone: artwork must extend past the trim, while text and logos should stay well inside it. Set the width your printer asked for in the tool above and drop your file.
The tool extends the canvas beyond the trim line and fills the new margin — your artwork itself is never rescaled, cropped or moved. You choose how the margin is painted: mirror reflects the artwork outward (the usual choice — cut edges stay seamless), scale enlarges a copy of the artwork just enough to cover the bleed, and none extends the canvas without painting it.
Behind the scenes it also sets the PDF's trim and bleed page boxes correctly, so the printer's cutter — and their preflight software — knows exactly where the cut lands. That box bookkeeping is the part most DIY fixes get wrong.
3 mm is the European standard for small-format print and the tool's default — just drop your PDF and download the result. US printer asked for 0.125 in? That is 3.175 mm; enter it exactly. Large format spec of 5 or 10 mm? Type it in — any width from 0.5 to 25 mm works.
No signup, no watermark, no email gate: upload the PDF, check the before/after proof, download the print-ready file. If you want the full picture of whether the file will survive prepress — color, resolution and fonts included — follow up with the free PDF preflight checker.
Whatever your printer specifies — there is no universal number. 3mm (or 0.125in) is typical for cards and flyers; large-format work often wants 5–10mm. This tool lets you set the exact width instead of forcing a default on you.
“Mirror” reflects your artwork outward into the new bleed area (the usual choice — edges stay seamless after cutting). “Scale” enlarges the artwork slightly to cover the bleed. “None” extends the canvas without painting it.
No. The artwork stays exactly where it is; the tool extends the canvas beyond the trim line and fills the new margin. The trim and bleed boxes are set so the cutter knows where to cut.
Paper shifts slightly during cutting. Without bleed, a hairline of unprinted white can appear on the edge of every cut. Bleed gives the blade a margin of printed artwork to land in.
Yes. Every page gets the same bleed treatment in one pass — the trim and bleed boxes are set consistently across the document, which is exactly what an imposition workflow expects.
No. The downloaded PDF is your artwork with bleed added — no watermark, no stamp, no email gate. Free means free.
This tool takes PDFs. If your artwork is an image, run it through the free PDF preflight checker instead — it accepts PNG, JPEG and TIFF, and its auto-fix applies the same bleed extension.
Yes — adding bleed, the proof and the download are free with a daily fair-use cap. No account needed; files are auto-deleted.
The complete preflight report in seconds — geometry, color, ink, fonts, images and structure. Optionally check against your own trim size, bleed and resolution.
Validate a PDF against archival and accessibility standards — PDF/A-1b, 2b, 3b or PDF/UA — with every failed clause listed.
Convert screen-RGB artwork to press-ready CMYK with a real ICC profile — and see exactly how the colors will shift before you print.
Pad any product photo to a perfect square on a white background, strip EXIF data, and check it against marketplace listing rules.
Find the effective DPI of your image at the size YOU want to print it — a photo that is razor sharp as a postcard can be a blur as a poster.