Margins in documents to be printed by clients

Avoid placing text or graphics too close to the edges of pages that you distribute to clients as e-mail attachments or web site downloads.

Printers differ in the "live area," or portion of the page they can print on. Header and footer information too near the top or bottom of your pages, for example, may not get printed. When it doubt, leave approximately three-quarters of an inch border around all four sides of a page.