3 mm bleed, crop marks, 300 DPI images and embedded fonts — the file your print shop actually asks for, generated from the same item list as your digital menu.
Menus designed in slide software and word processors get rejected for the same handful of reasons every time: no bleed, RGB colour, 72 DPI photos, fonts that were not embedded. MenuFly exports get those right by default.
Everything a commercial printer checks before they run the job.
The interchange standard print shops prefer, with transparency flattened predictably.
3 mm bleed so a slightly off trim never leaves a white edge on a dark menu.
We warn you when a screen colour cannot be printed and suggest the nearest one that can.
Photos are checked at final print size — you are told before a picture prints soft.
Your typefaces travel inside the file, so nothing substitutes to Arial at the printer.
A4, A5, letter, DL, trifold, booklet, table tent and A3 window poster.
Your dishes, prices, sections and photos live in one list — the same one behind your QR menu.
Pick a size and a fold. The template reflows your items into it without you moving text boxes.
We flag low-resolution photos, out-of-gamut colours and text sitting too close to the trim.
Hand the PDF to your printer, or print A4 copies in the office for tonight’s service.
Paper shifts a fraction of a millimetre as it is cut. If your background stops exactly at the page edge, some copies come back with a white hairline down one side. Bleed means the artwork runs 3 mm past the trim so the cut always lands inside the colour.
Crop marks tell the guillotine operator where to cut. The safe margin is the 5 mm inside the trim where you must not put text — prices set right against the edge are the most commonly ruined element on a restaurant menu.
Screens mix light, presses mix ink, and some screen colours — bright oranges, electric blues, neon greens — have no ink equivalent. Left unchecked they print muddy. The export flags them and offers the closest printable match, so your brand colour looks the same on the table as on the phone.
The real saving is not in the printing. Keep the cover and the sections that never move, and reprint only the insert whose prices changed. The export lets you generate a single page rather than the whole booklet, which is how a menu update becomes a ₹400 job instead of a ₹9,000 one.
Yes. Exports are PDF/X-ready with embedded fonts, 3 mm bleed and crop marks — the format print shops ask for. If yours has unusual requirements, the export settings can be adjusted to match.
A4, A5, letter, DL, trifold, booklet, table tent and A3 poster. The same item list reflows into each one without redesigning.
Yes. Export an office version without bleed and crop marks that prints correctly on a normal A4 laser or inkjet.
The preflight check tells you before you download, naming the dish and the size at which the photo stops being sharp.
They share one item list, so a price can never be right in one place and wrong in the other. You re-export the PDF whenever you are ready to reprint.
Print-ready export with bleed and crop marks is on the Growth plan and above. The free plan includes a simple printable PDF for in-house use.
Bleed, crop marks, 300 DPI and embedded fonts — generated, not fiddled with.
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