Trifold Brochure

Tips For Trifold Brochure Printing

There are several options for doing trifold brochure printing. You may choose to print all the brochures yourself using a printer or copy machine or you may have a professional printer do the job. If you choose a professional, you can decide whether you use a traditional offset printer or digital printer, which can be ordered on the Internet.

Printing Yourself With A Printer or Copy Machine

The first thing to think about here is to make sure that all of your margins line up. You should use a software package that contains a template or guide ruler to make sure everything will fit in the alloted area and can be folded properly. Next, you need to figure out which direction the second side of your paper needs to be fed through. With a copy machine, you can program it to automatically do double sided copies, either from a single sided original or a double sided original. If you are printing one side at a time, you will need to allow time to print that side and turn the paper over to print the other side. Then you will need to think about the fact that when all the printing is done, you will need to get the copies folded. Ideally, there should be more than one individual on the folding job. If trifold brochure printing is a regular part of your operation, you should consider investing in a folding machine. These machines do all the folding for you. Some copy machines also have a built-in folding component. Always remember, when possible, to do a test before programming a machine to do the entire batch. This way, any errors or alignment issues can be fixed before a whole job is done incorrectly.

Trifold Brochure Printing with a Professional

There are some simple steps to take when considering using a professional printer. First, you should decide whether you want to design the brochure yourself or have the professional do it. Obviously, the price will increase when hiring the design to be done as well. Then, you will need to consider the type of printing you would want done. The deciding factors here will involve the number of copies you will need and ability to save and send a compatible file of your brochure to a particular printer. The "traditional" printing is offset printing, using metal plates and ink to create the brochure. It is more expensive and not as easy to correct errors. However, this is the method most used for large quantities of over 1,000. Then there is digital printing which can be likened to using a standard PC with industrial, high quality printing abilities. This is less expensive and errors are easily corrected. But this would usually be used for smaller jobs of less than 1,000 copies. Using a professional printer, you should first get a quote for the trifold brochure printing job. Then you should order a sample to make sure you are satisfied with the result. Then you contact the printer with any corrections that need made. Finally you place the order. Remember that this process can take several days for production and shipment. The upside is that you can order the job to include all the folding to be done, but it will add more cost and time.