Newspaper Club specification

Newspaper Club Digital Broadsheet

350.0 by 500.0 millimetres, 13.78 by 19.69 inches, with a 10.0mm margin. Full artwork specification, page count rules and how it compares with the rest of the range. This is smaller than its name suggests, and the odd one out on margins.

Last updated 2026-08-20

The specification

Trim size
350.0 x 500.0 mm
Trim size in inches
13.78 x 19.69 in
Printable area
340.0 x 480.0 mm
Printable in inches
13.39 x 18.9 in
Margin
10.0 mm / 0.39 in
Margin applies to
top, bottom and outside edge
Bleed
Not accepted
Set document to
Same as trim size
Page count
Multiples of 4, 4 to 40
Image resolution
150 to 300 DPI
Smallest body text
8pt
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Figures on this page come from Newspaper Club artwork guidelines, read on 2026-08-20. Presses vary and printers revise their guidelines, so run a test PDF through their own preflight before you order.

Do not assume it matches the traditional broadsheet

This is the single most important thing on the page. Newspaper Club sells a traditional broadsheet at 380 by 578mm and a digital broadsheet at 350 by 500mm. Both are called broadsheets and they are not the same shape. The digital version is thirty millimetres narrower and seventy-eight millimetres shorter, a difference you will absolutely notice if you prepare artwork for one and order the other.

It is also the only Newspaper Club format with a ten millimetre margin rather than fifteen. So a designer moving between the two formats has to change both the page size and the margin, and neither change is one the software will warn you about.

What the smaller size is good for

It sits between a tabloid and a full broadsheet, which turns out to be a comfortable place for a lot of projects. You get the visual authority of a broadsheet page without a sheet so large it is awkward to handle indoors, and being digitally printed it works for short runs where a traditional press would not.

The page count runs in fours up to forty, which is double the traditional broadsheet's ceiling. If you want broadsheet presence and more than twenty pages, this is the only option in the Newspaper Club catalogue that provides it.

The margin is smaller, so be more careful, not less

Ten millimetres is not much. It looks like almost nothing on a 350mm wide page on screen, and the temptation to place a page number or a folio line just inside it is strong. Presses shift by a couple of millimetres as a matter of course, so a ten millimetre margin leaves you a genuinely narrow tolerance.

The sensible habit is to treat the stated margin as the absolute limit rather than the target. Keep body text a few millimetres further in than you are required to, and reserve the last few millimetres for things you can afford to lose.

The rest of the Newspaper Club range

Every format this printer offers, so you can see where this one sits before you commit to it.

FormatTrim (mm)Trim (in)MarginPages
Traditional Tabloid289.0 x 380.0 mm11.38 x 14.96 in15.0 mmx4
Digital Tabloid289.0 x 380.0 mm11.38 x 14.96 in15.0 mmx4
Traditional Broadsheet380.0 x 578.0 mm14.96 x 22.76 in15.0 mmx2
Digital Broadsheetthis page350.0 x 500.0 mm13.78 x 19.69 in10.0 mmx4
Traditional Mini170.0 x 250.0 mm6.69 x 9.84 in10.0 mmx8

Comparing across printers instead? The full size table lists every format from every printer covered here, and the words to pages estimator will tell you how many of these pages your draft actually needs.