Wednesday, April 23, 2014

The Importance Of Having A Brochure Printing That Is Eco Friendly

By Essie Osborn


Brochures are promotional materials, which can help your business grow its sales margins and enhance its brand awareness campaigns. These print materials will be produced time and again as part of the marketing and advertising strategy. However, it is important you consider using a brochure printing that is eco friendly in order to cut down on costs as well as contribute to environmental care.

The traditional methods of print press use inks that contain chemical substances. However, the modern and eco-conscious methods use dry powder toner or inks derived from non toxic materials like soy. Using lithographic forms of printing is not only costly but also contributes to wastage and harms the environment.

The mixtures are heated inside the print machine in order to make images and texts prints on the print material. With offset prints, things are done traditionally and differently. It entails use of ink, rollers, and plates where wet ink is laid on each piece of paper material. The variations you see on prints could cost you a lot of money as well as lower the level of your business image and reputation.

With the offset printing methods, wastage occurs when aligning the papers and setting up or registering the inks. A print press is likely to waste about 5 to 10 percent of paper through activities such as color registration or lineup. Since the printers have to be set to align the ink to acceptable densities before producing printouts, those papers and ink used in the testing are just a waste. This is something that could be reduced by adopting digital prints.

The offset printer machines can be fast but then again, they may not produce very quality prints. You may have the first printouts being of good quality but the last ones can be faded. In addition, the lithographs can exhibit many errors in the prints. The prints may be out of margin meaning some text or image may not be seen.

If you have such errors in printouts, they do not show a good reputation for your business. Turning a blind eye on small errors on your brochure may seem a solution but it may not be a good impression to consumers. Customers are keen to note small details and mistakes though they appear small to you. Those errors may measure the image of a company, and you could have your business having a negative perception from the customers.

Some of the errors, which occur during the design part may not be corrected when you use the offset or lithographic methods. This means if a print design cannot be produced with the errors, you have to start the process from the scratch. Some of the errors are noticed when already some copies have been produced. Those copies only have to go to waste but with the digital process, errors can easily be rectified in the initial stages.

The digital prints are done through computerized system. You can see what is being printed from a screen. Errors can easily be detected meaning you are able to make correction even before you begin the printout. The first print you get from the digital printing press shows you how the rest of the prints will appear. There is consistency in the printing and the quality does not deteriorate as you print more and more copies.




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