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Thanks Neil. Let me go through you comments;

> Standard bleed is 1/8" or 3 mm for this type of printing. Any printer 
> worth dealing with can trim accurately to that fairly generous dimension. 
> If he can't, he's a slob -- look elsewhere as he is likely to be sloppy in 
> the rest of the job.

Okay, 3mm.

> For this job, if your page is 29.7 x 21 cm, that is exactly the size you 
> set up in your page layout app. The bleed portion of your art is extended 
> 3 mm beyond that trim size.

Well, for this job the size is 28 x 20 cm. In InDesign, I set up a page that 
size, then set doc prefs with 5mm bleed.

> But, the trim (crop) marks and registration marks, color bars and other 
> marginalia are generated automatically by your printer when he outputs the 
> job. There are few times I manually add cropmarks, the most frequent being 
> for ganged-up business cards, note pads, and mailing labels.

So you're saying I shouldn't add crop marks? I should just tell that printer 
that I've added 3mm bleed?

> Also, prepare your journal pages in InDesign or QuarkXPress in reading 
> spreads. Let your printer do any page imposition.

That's one mistake I haven't yet made!

> Neil
Thanks,
Ariel