Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The Process Of Brochure Printing Then And Now

By Allan Reeves

As marketing tools, brochures have never failed to register an impact on clients' minds. They can be circulated by hand or by mail to clients, or can just be placed on cash counters of stores. The need for brochures and their printing has led many printing services firms to dedicate themselves to this market. There have been many revolutionary transformations in brochure printing in recent decades and the internet along with digital technologies is fuelling many of them.

Previously, computers were hardly involved in the brochure printing process, which took several days, involved in working with film negatives or plate-making machines and required multiple test prints, rounds of fine tuning etc. Even in design, the clients could not offer detailed inputs and the printers mostly took care of the design task, working with a restricted set of pre decided formats.

Nowadays, the client himself can do the entire designing on a computer, and the brochures can be created in a much shorter timeframe than they could be some just a few years ago. Delivery of final prints in large quantities in a day's time is possible now, thanks to improvements in technology.

A vital aspect of brochure printing is that it entails important elements like formatting, content, and use of graphics. The digitisation of the printing process has radically transformed these aspects, providing a plethora of options, including higher quality full-colour printing, advanced and complex layout options, and content-building packages.

Clients these days most of the times favour colourful brochures and digital brochures amongst the latest types of brochures offered by printing services companies. Such brochures are fit to be distributed for a medium or longer period of time. But when it comes to brochure distribution in huge numbers, but for a restricted time span, then dazzling but brief brochures that undergo a brief print run fit the bill perfectly. To develop such brochures, nothing can be better than off-set printing, as a good number of prints can be created in a short time span, though it takes a little more time for all the pre-printing tasks in this technique.

Alongside the improvement in the standard of printing, ancillary services are now provided by most brochure printing firms as well. These include distribution, direct mailing, designing, and a lot more.

The internet has radically changed the scenario, with customers now visiting websites of printing companies and placing online orders after selecting designs and colour specifications from the comfort of their office. Hence, brochure printing has evolved a lot in recent years, and is about to undergo even more innovative changes in the coming years.

In Truth, technology makes life easy, most particularly in business sector. Brochure printing grows more competitive, thus, make use of technology the most out of it and be imaginative as you can.

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