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Is your design ready for brochure printing? Even when using brochure templates, you should always try to check if your custom layouts are 100% ready. You will now want any kind of error to be multiplied hundreds of time once your brochure printing starts right?
So let me help you out here. Below is your list of checks to make sure your color brochure designs are ready 100% for brochure printing. Just follow through the list and be meticulous at checking each aspect, and you should be help your designs get ready 100 percent for printing.
Making sure the text is okay The first step to make sure your designs for brochure printing are okay is to make sure that the text itself is good. There are two parts to this, the content and the formatting. Here are the details.
o Content: When it comes to checking the text content of the brochure, the only sure step is of course is to proofread. I am not talking about just an instance of proofreading here. I am talking about making several checks on the content to make sure that there are no spelling and grammar errors, as well as no missing text or message details in the content.
The best way to make sure that there are no errors in the content is to do proofreading several times. Doing around three to four proofreading sessions should do the trick. It is better for different people to do these multiple checks so that their different perspectives can spot what another person might have missed. With these thorough checks, your content for color brochures should be perfect for printing.
o Formatting In terms of formatting, you will have to check your text if its font features are coherent and appropriate for brochure printing. This means checking the size, font style, paragraph alignments, line spacing and character spacing to determine if they all make the text fit in right. If there is cramming of text or lots of spaces in between text, then you might be doing something wrong. So check the different formatting aspects of your text and get everything to fit right. Check it two to three times to make sure everything is okay. You won't want a formatting error to get passed on to brochure printing.
Checking your images properly The next thing to check for brochure printing designs are the images. To make sure that all your images are 100% okay for brochure printing, the main thing to check here is the resolution. Is your image resolution 300dpi or higher? If it is, then your images should be perfect for printing brochures. It won't get fuzzy or deteriorate in quality if it gets printed. However, if it is lower than 300dpi (which means usually the image cam from the web) then you might want to look for another image. Images below 300dpi won't print well for brochures and those images will undoubtedly get fuzzy. So make sure that ALL YOUR IMAGE are in high resolution, this will make sure they are ready for printing.
Technical checks for printing Finally, you should of course do some technical checks in your file for brochure printing. Here are the things you should check:
o File Format: Is your brochure draft in a file format recognized by the brochure printing company? If not convert it first to the appropriate format.
o Color Mode: is your draft in the appropriate color mode for color printing? Usually you should set it to CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black). If it is not then it is recommended that you set it right away.
Great! If all those items are checked out well, then your brochure draft is 100% ready for brochure printing. Use this list a guide you in all your brochure printing endeavours. Good Luck!
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