Re: Precise Margin Alignment for Printing Brochures, etc.
If you talk to your printer they would give the info. Most printers would tell you to leave around 4 mm free from graphics & text on both sides of the 1/3 of a page and it works for me. Also I do small runs of about 500 tri-folds brochure on a large format desktop laser in duplex mode and they all work accurately, within just over 1 mm, but when doing boderless printing on A4 laser I can get inaccuracies as you describe. So when doing a full colour brochure I always allow 2 mm for any inaccurate printing. When working with an A4 laser I always make my full colour brochure smaller than the full A4 paper and then use a guillotine to trim using crop marks to get my full colour sheet. Hope that helps!
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