What print margins should you ask the printer for?

You ask for the bleed and the safety margin that machine respects, in millimetres, before the mark is placed. A screen margin does not count: the blade eats the stroke and sometimes the phone number. Send the paper size and ask what they trim. Write the figure down and do not round it by eye. On sierra menus the booking number falls into the cut and the floor dictates it from memory. On banners, the eyelet covers the last letter. The piece laid out with the margin the printer wrote down, and a proof where the mark and the phone sit inside it. That figure stays on the usage sheet.