Marketing brochure

equitydealer

Hope someone can help here - I've been asked to put together a marketing brochure which is being sent to a very important client. Unfortunately I am being offered little help on how to go about it by my company! It's not really my job to do this but I just have to get on with it.

I need to have the document published as a glossy brochure (A4 pages, stapled in the centre)

1) Would anyone know how much it approx costs to have a ten page brochure printed X 100. It should be of very good quality.

2) Which type of binding would be best?

I will ask the above questions when I visit the printers, but it would be helpful to know the true answers beforehand as I have not got a clue.

Many thanks in advance

Bubba_Shaboo

A quick Google gives some options, see here for ideas of prices: http://www.e-printing.co.uk/showbooklets.htm

Typically I understand an A4 sized brochure would, at the cheapest level, be printed on A3 media and then folded to A4.

This means you would usually go in multiples of 4 e.g 1 page of A3 has two sides/pages but when folded to A4 it becomes 4 pages.

Thus your ten page document would fall between 8 pages (2 sheets of A3) or 12 pages (3 sheets of A3) so you would need to pad it out or edit it down to fit.

You ask about different types of binding but then mention centre-stapling, again I believe centre-stapling is probably the cheapest option and probably most suited to your brochure.

The higher the grammage of the paper, the thicker/better quality for a brochure it would be e.g 80/90 gsm is the sort of paper usually used in laser printers, 160 gsm is decent card and 220 gsm upwards is thick card but the final product would depend on the printing/finishing process.

Best really to try and get ahold of someone else's brochure that looks like what you're aiming for (car dealers for example) and then ask a printer how much to do yours to the same specs.

Please note although I have limited experience of this subject I'm far from being an expert.

HTH

Bubba©

equitydealer

Thanks for the info!

I've got a brochure of another company which I'll take along to the printers.