miercuri, 20 octombrie 2010

The Evolution Of Brochure Printing

By Mary Lonney

As marketing tools, brochures have never failed to register an impact on clients' minds. They can be distributed like pamphlets or mailed at customers' addresses, or can just be kept in stores for customers to take with them. The need to have brochures printed has resulted in the rise of a sector of the printing services business, which specifically caters to brochures. Developments like digital technology, design software, and the internet have greatly transformed the traditional mould of brochure printing.

Until just a few years back, 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 customers could not offer detailed inputs and the printers mostly took care of the design job, working with a limited set of pre decided templates.

Nowadays, the customer himself can do the whole designing on a computer, and the brochures can be made in a much shorter time frame than they could be some years ago. Supply of finished prints in large quantities in a day's time is possible nowadays, thanks to advancements in technology.

It is important to remember that brochure printing involves not just the impression of ink on paper, but design, content creation and formatting as well. With the introduction of digital technology, printing companies have started to provide a clutch of benefits to the clients in this area, like high quality colour printing, multiple options in complicated formats and designs, and impressive packages on content-building.

Printing services firms offer a lot of latest choices to clients, among which colourful brochures and digital brochures are most favoured by them. These are usually appropriate for brochures which will be in use from medium to long-term. Any content for short-term high volume use is best advertised through the use of catchy, vibrant, but brief brochures, which have only a limited print run. Off-set printing, which is a comparatively older method, is still very popular for these brochures as even though it takes more time to make the brochures, a large quantity of copies can be printed at one go.

Nowadays brochure printing companies also provide ancillary services besides guaranteeing superior quality of prints for their clients. These include circulation, direct mailing, designing, and many more.

The internet has radically changed the scenario, with clients now visiting websites of printing firms and placing online orders after picking designs and colour schemes from the comfort of their desk. Hence, brochure printing has witnessed ground-breaking transformations in recent times, and the prospects of further change seem to be endless.

Technology makes brochure printing as good as possible. Brochure printing becomes more competitive, therefore, make use of technology the most out of it and be imaginative as you can.

About the Author:

Niciun comentariu:

Trimiteți un comentariu

Yahoo! News: Most Viewed