Your Easy Guide To Catalog Printing From The Office

Too tired or busy to go out and print catalogs from the local catalog printing company? Well you are now reading the right article. In this guide, we will teach you how to do your catalog printing right from the comfort of your own office. Yes! You do not need to go outside. You can easily do your normal work and print full color catalogs easily from the office. Here are the things you have to do.

• Your choice: Professional or office printing - First, you will need to decide if you want to print your color catalogs professionally online, or if you want to do it yourself from the office printer. I recommend that you still choose professional catalog printing online if you have little experience creating printed works manually. Also, if you plan to print hundreds to thousands of pieces of color catalogs, then online catalog printing is your best option.

However, if you are a bit skilled and need only just a few catalogs for limited distribution, then your best choice is to print from the office. It will be cheaper on your part, and you will have total control of how the catalogs are created.

So choose wisely. Print professionally if you lack the talent and need a lot of catalogs. Print from your own office printer if you just need few pieces of catalogs and are a little bit skilled and creating manual documents.

• Creating your designs - With the printing process chosen, you should then be able to continue on with your design. In creating designs the easiest way to build a catalog from the ground up is to use a template. Desktop publishing applications like Adobe Indesign may have some catalog templates that you can use. Otherwise, you might want to download a free catalog printing template from an online printing company.

Once you have a template, it should be easy for you to create a layout for your color catalogs. Make sure that you have a catalog cover, a table of contents, your product pages and of course your ordering forms or postcards. Make sure that everything has a coherent theme and use as many images as you can for each product you are selling.

• Printing catalogs online - Now with your designs ready, you can print your color catalogs. If you chose the online catalog printing option, then the next step should be easy. You should just log in to the Internet and go to the printing company website you have chosen. Fill out the online order form they usually have, then specify your catalog printing options. Make sure you choose good printing materials and inks for your full color catalog. Once set, you then just need to upload your design to the online printing company and pay for the catalog printing order. Within three to five days, your full color catalogs should arrive. They should look great and will have a professional finish.

• Printing catalogs from office printers - If you chose to print your catalogs yourself, there will be a lot of hard work for you. First you should just print your catalog printing pages one by one. If you have a full color photocopy machine at your office then you will be in luck. Just photocopy all your pages in the copier to quickly produce your full color pages. Once done, you should then just cut and bind it with the process that you want. I recommend using a comb binding technique since supplies for this is easy to get and almost anyone can figure out how to bind pages with this. If you are really industrious you should have around 30-50 catalogs in one day.

So that's it! No matter what process you choose, you should now know how to print full color catalogs from the office. Apply what you learned well.