Thursday, 14 January 2010

Brochure Printing - As The Time Passes By

By Chris Lonney

As promotion tools, brochures have never been unsuccessful in registering an impact on customers' minds. They can be circulated by hand or by post to clients, or can just be placed on cash counters of stores. The need to have brochures printed has resulted in the rise of a sector of the printing services business, which specially caters to brochures. There have been many radical changes in brochure printing in recent years and the internet along with digital technologies is fuelling many of them.

Until just a few years back, computers were hardly involved in the brochure printing process, which took several days, involved in working with film negatives or plate-making machines and needed many test prints, adjustments etc. Even in design, the clients could not provide detailed suggestions and the printers most of the times shouldered the design job, working with a restricted set of pre decided templates.

Nowadays, the client at his end can himself design the brochure and transfer it online to the printing firm, and he also doesn't have to wait for days for the end product to be delivered to him. With technology progressing rapidly, immediate printing of a large number of brochures and their quick supply within a day's time has become possible.

A vital feature of brochure printing is that it involves important components like layout, content, and use of graphics. The ushering in of the digital era has opened up a vista of advancements in this area like high quality full-colour printing, complicated layout formats, and smart packages on content-building.

Clients these days usually prefer colourful brochures and digital brochures from the newest types of brochures offered by printing services firms. Such brochures are meant for distribution for medium or longer time spans. But when it comes to brochure distribution in huge numbers, but for a restricted time span, then dazzling but brief brochures that have a short print run are the most suitable for the purpose. To create such brochures, the best method to go for is off-set printing, as a large quantity of prints can be created in a minimum time span, though it takes a little more time for all the pre-printing tasks in this technique.

Ancillary services are now provided by several printing service companies besides the quality improvements in the prints. These include distribution, direct mailing, formatting, and a lot more.

The internet has introduced a client-centric way of approaching brochure printing, with customers now placing bulk orders with firms online and selecting colours, designs and formats for their brochure by working on their own computers. Hence, brochure printing has changed a lot in a comparatively short time, and the pace of advancements does not seem to be slowing down at all.

Truly, technology makes life easy, most particularly in business. Thus, take advantage of what technology can offer and raise your creativity to become competitive in brochure printing.

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