Flat extrusion dies are commonly used in a wide variety of film, sheet and coating applications. Although flat dies can be designed to produce an exit flow distribution that is very uniform across most of the width, there will usually be a region along each side where It drops gradually to zero. This often requires trimming the edges of the film or sheet downstream in order to meet product specifications. It is commonly believed that treating the land area of the die with coatings that promote a small amount of wall slip will reduce the size of this edge effect and therefore improve die performance. This analysis shows that slip over the entire land region of the the will adversely affect die performance. Better performance is possible but only if the sides of the land are treated.