Printing Templates & File Preparation Guides

Free print-ready PDF templates, file preparation guides, printing terms glossary, and reference materials for designers, marketing teams, targeted mail campaigns, and nonprofits working with Bacchus Press. Brochure templates in every standard fold and size, business card templates, a self-cover booklet template for InDesign, plus our designer checklist, printing terms glossary, envelope sizes reference, and file prep guide.

Reference Guides

Download the four reference documents we send to every new partner. Open in Adobe Acrobat, save to your project folder, and refer back during file prep and preflight.

• Bacchus Press File Prep Guide

  A complete walkthrough of how to prepare a press-ready file for Bacchus Press, covering bleed, trim, fonts, image resolution, color spaces, and packaging your files for delivery. Recommended starting point for new designers. Download File Prep Guide (PDF, 175 KB)

• Designer Preflight Checklist

  A printable single-page checklist covering every item we verify on incoming files: bleed, crop marks, font embedding, image resolution, color mode, overprint, transparency. Run through this before sending the file to production. Download Preflight Checklist (PDF, 99 KB)

• Printing Terms Glossary

  Definitions of 80+ printing and prepress terms: Bleed, CMYK, collated vs uncollated, debossed, die cut, perfect binding, saddle stitch, spot color, trapping, and more. This is useful for anyone getting ready to work with a printer. From designers who are new to the printing world and anyone interested in getting their documents printed. Have a look through and let us know if you have questions. Download Glossary (PDF, 63 KB)

• Envelope Sizes Reference

  Standard US envelope dimensions (#6 3/4, #9, #10, A2, A6, A7, A8, A9, A10, Baronial, Booklet, Catalog) plus ISO/A-series envelopes (C5, C6, B5, DL) for international mailings. Width × height in inches and metric. Download Envelope Reference (PDF, 213 KB)

How to Use the Print Templates

Each PDF template below is sized to the final trim dimensions and includes the .125" bleed area, fold lines, and (where applicable) mailing panel guides. Place the template into your layout program (InDesign, Illustrator, Quark) on its own layer, design over it, then delete the template before exporting your file.

Brochure Templates

Press-ready PDF templates for every standard brochure fold, in every common trim size. Each template includes inside and outside panels with bleed, trim, and fold lines marked.

Double-Parallel Fold

Half-Fold Brochures

Tri-Fold Brochures

Z-Fold Brochures

Business Card Templates

Standard 3.5" × 2" business card templates with bleed, trim, and safe-area indicators. Available in horizontal and vertical orientation.

Booklet Templates

Self-cover booklet template available as an InDesign template (.indt). Use for saddle-stitched booklets where the cover is printed on the same stock as the interior pages.

Questions About a File?

If you've worked through the preflight checklist and still have a question about your file, send it to your Bacchus Press account manager or use the contact form. Press-ready file review is included with every job; we'll flag any issues before production starts.