Thursday, January 14, 2010

Brochure Printing - As The Time Goes By

By Sandara Lonney

Circulating brochures has always been a successful promotion strategy for any organization. They can be distributed like pamphlets or mailed at customers' addresses, or can simply be kept in stores for customers to take with them. As a result, a massive part of the printing services industry has grown to cater to this market. Developments like digital technology, design software, and the internet have radically changed the traditional processes of brochure printing.

Previously, computers were rarely used in the brochure printing process, which took several days, working with film negatives or plate-making machines and needed multiple test prints, adjustments etc. Even in design, the clients could not provide detailed suggestions and the printers usually took care of the design job, working with a limited set of pre decided templates.

On the other hand, now brochures are designed, transferred to the printing company, and edited on computers, mostly by the client himself, and the final product is printed and delivered within a much shorter time span. Technology has progressed far enough to make 24 hour printing possible, enabling any number of prints to be delivered to the customer within a day's time.

A critical feature of brochure printing is that it involves important components like formatting, content, and design. With the advent of digital technology, printing companies have started to provide a clutch of benefits to the customers in this area, like high quality colour printing, multiple choices in complex layouts and designs, and impressive packages on content-building.

Printing services firms offer many latest choices to customers, among which colourful brochures and digital brochures are most favoured by them. These are usually suitable for brochures which will be distributed from medium to long-term. Vibrant and catchy but concise brochures are suitable for limited circulation in massive volumes, which are printed through a short print run. The conventional technique of off-set printing is still most appropriate for such brochures, as bulk prints within minimum time is possible, though preparation of brochures takes more time in this kind of printing.

Nowadays brochure printing companies also offer supplementary services besides guaranteeing better quality of prints for their clients. These include distribution, direct mailing, designing, and a lot more.

The internet has introduced a client-centric way of approaching brochure printing, with customers now placing their orders with firms online and selecting colours, designs and layouts for their brochure on their own computer screen. Hence, brochure printing has come a long way in a relatively short time, and the rate of advancements is showing no signs of slowing down.

Truly, technology makes life easy, most specially in business sector. Brochure printing becomes more competitive, therefore, make use of technology the most out of it and be imaginative as you can. - 16890

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