The Bleeding Edge has a cartographic (or printing) origin

[John Bailey]

Also in printing, bleed refers to an empty space a printer will leave so
that any accidents while printing (movement of paper etc) won't mean that
any text goes over the page's edge. I think most of us would have had that
experience of reading a photocopy or misprinted newspaper where every line
has a few letters or words cut off. Where do they go, philosophically
speaking? Reminds me of the pentimento mention in IV.
On 5 Jan 2013 18:21, "John Bailey" <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice. And there's concepts like light bleed or sound bleed. Things going
> where they're not supposed to, things that fail to be contained.
> On 5 Jan 2013 18:10, "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wow! Really!
>>
>> On Saturday, January 5, 2013, Don Higgins wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Bleed n. The edge of a map or chart on which cartographic detail is
>>> extended to the edge of the sheet. Also called BLEEDING EDGE. bleeding
>>> edge. . See BLEED.
>>>
>>> Hope it takes place in the 1860s and is long.
>>>
>>
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