Full-bleed photo fanzines, without the white slivers.
Bleed is the few millimetres of image that run past the trim, so nothing white shows when the paper is cut. Aldo Reborn adds it automatically — and respects what your home printer can’t reach.
Why a thin white line ruins the edge
Paper cutters drift by about a millimetre. If your photo stops exactly at the page edge, that drift leaves an ugly white sliver. And home printers can’t print to the very edge at all — there’s a non-printable margin. Aldo Reborn handles both, so images run truly edge to edge.
How it works
Under the hood
Aldo reads the real geometry of your sheet, so bleed only goes where the paper is actually trimmed.
- Bleed
- 3 mm (Europe) / 0.125″ (US)
- Why it exists
- Paper cutters drift about ±1 mm
- Home-printer margin
- ~5 mm non-printable area, handled
- Full-bleed at home
- “Derived” mode scales the zine to fit A4
- Resolution check
- Warns if an image is too small to bleed
- Edges
- Cut vs folded detected automatically
By hand vs generic export vs Aldo Reborn
By hand
- Bleed
- Manual guides
- Printer margin
- Ignored
- Cut vs fold
- Manual
- White slivers
- Likely
- Setup
- Tedious
Generic export
- Bleed
- Sometimes
- Printer margin
- Ignored
- Cut vs fold
- No
- White slivers
- Possible
- Setup
- Some
Aldo Reborn
Automatic
- Bleed
- Automatic 3 mm
- Printer margin
- Respected
- Cut vs fold
- Detected
- White slivers
- None
- Setup
- Zero
Frequently asked questions
What is bleed in printing? +
Bleed is the few millimetres of image that extend past the final trim line. When the paper is cut, the cut can drift slightly — bleed makes sure no white edge shows. Aldo Reborn adds it for you.
Why is there a white line at the edge of my print? +
Because the image stopped exactly at the page edge and the cut drifted by a fraction of a millimetre. Extending the image into the bleed area removes that white sliver.
Can my home printer print full-bleed? +
Most home printers can’t print to the very edge — there’s a non-printable margin. Aldo’s “derived” mode scales your zine slightly so it prints full-bleed within what your printer can reach, then you trim to size.
What’s the difference between bleed and safe zone? +
Bleed is outside the trim (image that gets cut off); the safe zone is inside the trim, where you keep text and key content so nothing important is cut. Aldo manages both.
How much bleed do I need? +
Aldo uses the standard 3 mm (0.125″ in the US) by default, which every printer accepts.
Edge-to-edge, every time
Aldo Reborn is in private beta on macOS — bleed and safe zones handled, automatically.