The culture of fast results has also become evident in the printing industry — instant price quotes, quick proofing and even 1-day turnaround times with digital printing.  And now, you can get instant designs for brochure printing.  You can utilize pre-made and ready-to-use templates, or use software that provide fast and user-friendly means to help you create a brochure design that would represent your company well.

Microsoft Publisher, for one, is a good application for beginners and those in need of really quick designs and layout formats.  It’s equipped with an assortment of templates but pretty much lets you dictate the other details like color, typeface and folds.

Design your Brochure Printing

Get started

Once you open your Publisher program, you are automatically presented with different folders containing templates for print products like flyers, business cards, brochures, postcards and among others.  To get your brochure design project started, simply click on the ‘brochures’ file.

From there, you can pick your brochure look either by choosing from ready-made templates or you can choose a blank design according to the paper size you want to follow.

Customize the design

From this window, you can also dictate the color scheme and typeface combination that you want (with the option to create your own hue pattern and font scheme), as well as additional specs such as number of folds, and attachment forms like order and response slips.  You can also save your business information details which will automatically be inserted in the prescribed areas within your brochure design.

You will get a bigger preview once you approve the content.  You can change the details such as design, colors, fonts and size, should you find other more fitting elements.

Customize furthermore by adding your copies to the text boxes, and images which already come with caption slots.  For brochures that need to be mailed, one panel is allotted for your mailing address and the address of the target recipient.

Finish up

It’s highly recommended that you submit your file in PDF form since this fixed-layout file format ensures that the printer will get the design with all elements intact and properly in place, just the way you designed them.

If the ‘save as PDF’ option is not readily available in your Publisher menu, you can get this feature from Microsoft’s website as Office add-in.

The convenience of a quick design and the advantages of a quality layout are rolled into one with Microsoft Publisher.  For your next brochure printing project, you may want to get hold of these and see favorable feedbacks.