Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Tradition Brochure Printing And Modern Day Brochure Printing

By Albert Reeves

Brochures have always been one of the most important marketing tools for any business. They can be circulated like leaflets or posted at clients' addresses, or can simply be kept in retail outlets for customers to pick them up. As a result, a huge section of the printing services industry has grown to cater to this market. Brochure printing has undergone a number of advancements in recent decades, with the dawn and increasing use of the internet heralding the most recent of these developments.

At a time when computers hadn't made their foray into brochure printing, the whole thing was a tedious activity involving use of plate-making tools and film negatives, and the particular tasks involved taking multiple test prints, making adjustments, and what not. Even in design, the clients could not provide personal suggestions and the printers mostly took care of the design task, working with a limited set of pre decided formats.

These days, the customer from his office can himself format the brochure and send it online to the printing firm, and he also doesn't have to wait for weeks for the final product to be delivered to him. Technology has progressed far enough to make round the clock printing possible, enabling any quantity of prints to be delivered to the customer within a single day.

It is important to remember that brochure printing entails not just the impression of ink on paper, but design, content creation and layout too. With the introduction of digital technology, printing companies have started to offer a range of advantages to the clients in this area, like high quality colour printing, multiple options in complex layouts and designs, and smart packages on content-building.

Printing services companies offer several latest choices to customers, among which colourful brochures and digital brochures are most favoured by them. Such brochures are apt to be distributed on a medium or long-term basis. Vibrant and catchy but concise brochures are suitable for short-term circulation in large quantities, which are printed through a restricted print run. Off-set printing, which is a relatively older method, is still very popular for these brochures as although it requires more time to prepare the brochures, a large quantity of copies can be printed in a single run.

Alongside the enhancement in the standard of printing, additional services are now offered by most brochure printing companies as well. Direct mailing, circulation and brochure development are some of these extra services.

Perhaps the most important advancement in brochure printing has been the internet, through which customers search for and obtain printing services, send their orders, view templates, and choose the configurations for the print order. Hence, brochure printing has witnessed ground-breaking transformations in recent times, and the possibilities of further change seem to be endless.

Truly, technology makes life easy, most particularly in business sector. Brochure printing becomes more competitive, thus, make use of technology the most out of it and be creative as you can.

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