Length & Distance

A payment card is about 30 thou thick, which sounds odd until you convert it: roughly three quarters of a millimetre. Quick answer: divide the millimetres by 0.0254, or multiply by 39.3701. So 1 mm is 39.37 mil, 0.5 mm is 19.69 mil, 2 mm is 78.7 mil and 25.4 mm is exactly 1,000 mil….

A printer asks for a 3 mm bleed, your design software counts in points, and the bridge between the two is a factor of about 2.83. Quick answer: multiply the millimetres by 72 and divide by 25.4, which is about 2.8346. So 1 mm is 2.83 pt, 3 mm is 8.5 pt and 25.4 mm…