Confessions of a Long Time Booklet Printer

After printing thousands of booklets in my long run in marketing and public relations, I have learned a lot about booklet printing and design. Now, to help those beginners out there, I am going to confess a few great concepts and tips.

These should help everyone to print booklets. Once you understand and take to heart these confessions, your own outputs will probably become more effective and successful at their job. So read on and understand carefully.

• Full color printing all the way - This is a simple but very important confession for you to remember. Full color is the best way to go, at all times. Full color booklet printing allows you to create whatever design you want with the right colors that can impress people. Everybody is printing with color these days because black and white are just plain boring. Therefore, you really have no choice. It is full color printing all the way or your outputs will not really mean something to anyone.

• The key is the cover - Another confession that you must know is that the key to design is the cover. If you make sure that the cover looks great and feels great, then it will generally have clear sailing ahead of it with more people responding to it. With a great cover, people will have a great first impression that should really last quite a long while.

To do this, you will need to always use the best materials for the cover, as well as the best binding methods and of course, the best full color designs. The better your covers are, the more people will be attracted to pick it up and read it. Even if the inside pages are printed in black and white ink on cheap paper, as long as the cover is impressive, it should be able to do its job well.

• Binding means a lot - A lot of people usually forget to think about the binding carefully. In most cases, people just use the default or standard type of binding method for their custom booklets. However, you should note that the binding directly affects the quality and longevity. So always try to ask about all your options in binding. Always try to get the strongest type of binding method so that you can benefit from your output for a longer time.

• Today we have it easy in designing - You should also be ware that today, we all have it easy in designing and printing. This is a big confession for you to realize. Almost everyone can make a design with just the right tools and software. There are great desktop publishing applications and enhancement software that people can easily operate to create custom booklets. In fact, there are wizards and tutorials out there that can easily teach anyone create a booklet design. Therefore, it does not really take hordes of experts. Today we have it easy in designing and you should be able to do it yourself with little extra costs.

• It is easy to make things cheaper - Finally, you should know that today it is easy to make printing cheaper. There are plenty of cheaper options to choose from, and there are configuration adjustments you can do to make the printing costs a little lower. For example, you can just try to reduce the size to get a marked discount. You can also try out playing with different kinds of materials to see which looks best and while at the same time cutting costs. You just need to explore and ask what the best and cheapest options are.

Great! I hope that these confessions have enlightened you enough to deal with your booklet printing easier and better. Good luck!