If you want
to learn how to do your own desktop publishing
so that you can accomplish your brochure
printing on your own, there is a step-by-step
process you can take to teach yourself. Whether you are
doing color brochure printing or black and white
makes little difference in the time you will spend on
the project. Color is more costly. That's the only
drawback. It does, however, give a more professional
quality look of appeal to your brochure printing
final product.
Let's look
at the steps to your self-taught color brochure
printing process.
Like any good
business process, your brochure printing needs a
plan. This plan should include a rough sketch of what
you want your color brochure printing project to
look like upon completion. You don't have to do
anything trendy - just pencil or pen drawings, and
while they won't be to scale they should be
proportionately accurate. If you have to tear them up
and start over several times, don't despair. Remember,
you are learning color brochure printing, an
experience that will stand you in good stead for years
to come. While creative graphic design professionals
may scoff at templates, your first color
brochure printing project might best be tackled
with all the help you can get.
The
advantages of brochure printing templates are
that it will save you a ton of time, which in the end
saves you a ton of money; and you can keep your
brochure consistent with subsequent brochures or
other marketing products such as newsletters,
press releases, reports, and business
cards. You might even use the ready-made
template to build your firm's very own Web page or
pages.
The next step
in your color brochure printing process is to
get your document set up. This is where the tweaking
will come in if you've chosen to use templates. If
you're working from scratch on your brochure
printing then now is the time you determine the
size as well as the orientation (portrait or landscape,
i.e., horizontal or vertical) of your brochure.
You'll also set your brochure's margins, and, should
you have more than one column per page you'll set up
column widths as well at this time
Download
Brochure Printing Templates
Here
you can download brochure & postcard
printing templates in all common sizes and
layouts. Click the red disk icon links to
download these templates that will help you get
going on your next project.
All files are supplied in PC Photoshop format
and contain the guide layers for page bleed.
The files can also be imported into
Illustrator, Word, or Pagemaker formats easily.
When you submit your design to your printing
service, you must ensure the your art doesn't
get cropped off, so please follow the
guidelines included.
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