Print Brochures Beautifully with a Budget
One of the greatest concerns that any businessman or businesswoman has in brochure printing is of course the brochure printing budget. While technically the cost of printing brochures are negligible today, it still good business sense of course to save on costs whenever it is possible. In this guide, I will teach you how to save on costs in brochure printing and still get some nice beautiful color brochures to boot. Below are 5 simple tips that should help you print brochures beautifully with a budget.
1. Get or create your own images – The first thing that is easy to do, to stay on budget in brochure printing is to get or create your own images. Buying images for commercial use will always take a huge chunk of your design and printing budget. So it is best not to hire a photographer or not to buy from professional image collections to get images for your brochures. It is better to just get or create your own images for your layout yourself. Just borrow a digital camera and just take your own pictures. With a healthy imagination, you should get lots of great images. This will cut your design cost by 5-10%, giving you a nice good start for cheap brochure printing.
2. Create your own design from a template – Another great way to save on your budget for brochure printing is to do your own layout through a brochure template. There are tons of free brochure templates from the Internet and it is possible for you yourself to use those templates as a basis for your own color brochure design. It is very easy to do and you will of course not be paying an expensive layout artist to do the design for you. Without a professional layout artist, you will save a lot of money for the design phase, freeing your resources for more important things. So get your brochure templates now and see if you can work with it.
3. Use a standard brochure configuration – Being standard with all your brochure configurations is also a great thing to do to stay on budget with your printing. Standard trifold brochures are usually cheaper to produce since lots of machines and printing presses are already pre-set for printing, cutting and folding trifold brochures. Deviating from this standard means a re-setting for the machines for printing and basically customizing the process for you. So to avoid that customization fee that comes with all of that, just use the standard brochure trifold configuration. Since lots of people use it, there won’t be any custom fees that you need to pay for.
4. Be practical with the paper materials – Another great tip in saving money for brochure printing in a budget is to be practical with paper materials. You do not really need to have an expensive full color brochure with shiny paper. As long as you use standard durable paper that displays your designs correctly, then it should be enough. So be wary about your choices of paper materials and use the ones that is practical for you.
5. Choose printers wisely – Lastly, it all boils down to the choice of printers really. To stay on budget with your custom brochure, I recommend that you look for an online brochure printing company. There are thousands of printing companies out there and you should easily be able to spot the most affordable ones for you to work with. Just try to compare the different prices and qualities that you see online and of course choose the ones that are best, cheapest and most reliable for you. So don’t just pick up the first brochure printer that you see. Extend your search and get the best and cheap deals for brochure printing.
Great! With those tips, you should be able to pull off a great looking brochure within your reasonable budget. It won’t look to bad, and in some cases, it should really look good even without too much money spent in printing.