Printing a Brochure

I'm getting ready to send my brochure to the printers, and they are telling me that I need at least a .25" border and a .125" bleed around the edges to ensure uniform printing. Can someone explain this to me and what I need to do in my brochure to ensure that I have this spacing? I don't want to pay any additional setup fees. One side of my brochure is all black, and the other is all white with text and pictures.
I've tried to follow the rulers at the top and the bottom to align my text and/or images, but the guide does not have an arrow to follow like Pagemaker, so its a bit difficult to align to the size that I need. I'm also having a problem finding out where to set the default margins on my page to accomodate for the proper spacing/bleed.
Thanks for the help!

hi, I'm a graphic designer and send a stack of pdfs to printers... bleed is where the printed items 'bleed off' the page edges, such as a large image or coloured panel etc. The amount needed is so that when the printer trims the paper, there's enough 'extra print' - ie the bleed, so that if the trimmer moves a bit, you still get your bled image off the edges as desired.
A border usually means that this is the area inside the edge of the page where the trimmer might get chopped off - so text and things like that need to be inside - so they don't get chopped off.
The black side will need bleed, the white side not. As they are back to back, the whole document now needs bleed.
Pages isn't anywhere near as high-end (ie trims and bleeds etc) print friendly as say Indesign which does all these things, but looking at it just now, it is possible, but quite fiddly.
Go to the page icon, click on inspector, click on page setup button. Scroll to bottom to 'manage custom sizes'. Here you can add your bleed amount to your page. That is, create a new page size that incorporates the bleed measurements. Click the + button, name it, then change the page size to what you need - add .125 x 2 to width, and .125 x2 to height. You can also enter the border as a printer margin here as well for the white side.
Then go back to page setup and select this larger page size that you just created and named. When you go back to your document, it has moved to top left and the extra space added to right and bottom. Add guides - ie .125 each side and both top and bottom. Move the items on the page within this. You now need to stretch the black background to fill the larger page size - you have added the bleed for the black! Check anything else that may need adjusting - a large pic etc
Once everything is where it should be, do the same to the white side - except nothing bleeds off here, it just needs positioning correctly. Fiddly, but possible.
(These things can all be set automatically in InDesign)
good luck and please let me know if that works for you
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