- High-quality full-color printing
- Folds keep information organized
- Choose between durable paper and cardstock
- Create a brochure based on a custom size
- Customize based on your specifications
Brochures
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- High-quality full-color printing
- Folds keep information organized
- Choose between durable paper and cardstock
- Create a brochure based on a custom size
- Customize based on your specifications
Maximize High-Quality, Organized Brochure Printing
Maximize High-Quality, Organized Brochure Printing
Brochure printing is part of every successful marketing campaign. Give away brochures at conventions, highlight details about your new collection, or include them with every new customer purchase. They are an effective, versatile, and affordable promotional tool.
It would help if you had a fold that complements your brand and brochure design. Please choose from our nine available brochure folding formats.
2-Panel Folds
Bi-fold
As its name indicates, this brochure contains two panels with enough space for lengthy text or large images.
Trifold
The trifold is folded twice to create three panels for a short, visual, and informative brochure. It is the most popular folding option.
Z-Fold
This commonly used brochure has six printed panels on both sides.
Gate Fold
The gatefold has two cover panels that open up to reveal a larger third panel.
4-Panel Folds
Four-panel folds are great for brochures that need to contain more information while still keeping them perfectly organized.
Accordion Fold
This brochure fold forms a zigzag pattern.
Double Gate Fold
This fold is similar to the gate fold, with an extra fold in the center. It is also known as a closed gatefold.
Double Parallel Fold
This fold is folded equally in half then folded again in the same direction.
French Fold
The French fold is folded in half horizontally and then vertically folded in half to create the four equally sized panels.
Roll Fold
Roll fold is folded three times from right to left. Each panel is directed to fold toward the left.
We print brochures for you on three premium paper coating options. Glossy paper is vibrant, while the matte’s smooth surface is elegantly subdued. All brochures are printed on paper stock and 10 pt. cardstock is folded before printing.
You can upload a ready-made design or create your brochure with our design tool. Make a new design today and have the order shipped anywhere in the US. Start brochure printing for your marketing needs today.
Brochure Printing FAQs
1. Cover - A central image that immediately conveys what your product or service has to offer. Include your company logo and name so customers make the association.
2. High-Resolution Images - Use 300 dpi images for your brochure design. This resolution ensures the photo won’t be blurry upon printing.
3. Features and Benefits - The copy should elaborate on your product's or service's main selling points. Break it down in a list format or several sections for easy reading.
4. Call to Action - Include discount coupons or promos in the brochure to drive traffic to your store or e-commerce site.
5. Contact Information - Don’t forget to place all your company’s contact information, such as a telephone number, address, email address, and website for the customer’s preference.
Note: If you are mailing this product, please confirm that your mail addressing machine can print on the laminated surface. If unsure, please call to request a sample before placing your order.
Brochures are practical marketing tools used to promote your information-heavy campaigns. They can be laid out like a take-out menu containing listings of different products and services; or as travel and events guides. Brochures come in standard and custom sizes. Read on to learn how to create standard brochures that will work best for your business.
Brochure Sizes, Folds, and Sample Designs
The information you will include determines the brochure size suited for your business. There are five standard brochure sizes — which you can combine with five popular types of paper folds. It helps to create an outline of your content to have an idea of the size that best works with your material.
The final folded size of your brochure depends on the combination of: flat paper size, fold, and orientation (horizontal or vertical). We have blank brochure templates for standard brochures that you can download to guide you in creating a layout — or you can download the templates below.
Brochure Size for every business
Standard brochure sizes from 5.5" x 8.5" to 8.5" x 14" are used by businesses that wish to spread information about their products and services. Below are examples of industries and/or events where we can use these sizes:
- Services - A good example of this would be photography studios. These brochures can feature sample works, special packages, and contact numbers.
- Medical - informative guides that summarize health care facts, medical conditions, health concerns, and general first aid topics.
- Real Estate - Description of commercial and residential properties and property information such as the address, property specifications, and contact numbers
- Trade Fair - participating companies in these events have an opportunity to communicate with their audience through brochures. They can showcase and demonstrate their products and services and position their brand among competitors.
- Non-Profit Orgs - these organizations use brochures to explain advocacy, history, and mission to gain support from potential benefactors and the general public.
On the other hand, the larger brochure sizes, 11” x 17 and 11” x 25.375, are more appropriate if you want to have more detailed content because some businesses would require image-heavy content.
- Amusement/Theme Park Brochures - a definite need for theme parks to have because this informs people of featured attractions, rides, and other events.
- Mini maps - map representations are especially helpful for tourists to guide them throughout their trip. Ideally, mini-map brochures contain street names and popular landmarks. These are displayed on hotel counters and souvenir shops. A more detailed map may need custom sizing and options.
Tips on Text Layout
One challenge in designing brochures is creating the layout without crowding the copy and images. You should maximize space and position the design elements for a visually appealing design:
It helps to ask an opinion from a friend on your font legibility and overall design before printing it.
If you need sizes other than the standard options, UPrinting offers custom brochures up to 11” x 17” for digitally printed runs and 27” x 39” for offset jobs. All you have to do is to fit in your content, images included, and we will make sure your design is print-ready with our free proofing service. For more information on brochure printing, call us at 1-888-888-4211 or chat with our friendly representatives. Our lines are open 24 hours from Monday to Friday and from 8 am to 9 pm on weekends and holidays.
Fonts
- Choose easy-to-read fonts (i.e., Garamond, Helvetica, Times New Roman, or Century).
- Use a sans serif font, such as Arial, for captions or small type.
- Limit your font choices. Using more than two types of fonts will make your brochure messy, unprofessional, or playful.
- Use highlighting techniques – bold, italic and bigger font size — instead of varying font styles.
- Use a bigger text size for headlines and calls to action. Although not always, font size can be relevant to the importance of information.
- Choose font sizes that are proportionate to the size of your brochures. To help you decide on the font size, assess how many words you want to fill the space with.
- Use 12-point font for the body, 10-point font for captions, and 14- to 22-point font for headlines. These are recommended sizes, but your choices will depend on the overall look of your design.
Text Alignment
- Avoid putting borders on your paragraphs unless needed.
- Break long paragraphs into bullet points. Walls of text can discourage people from reading further, and bulleted information is easier to recall.
- Use proper typographic alignment (flush left, right, justified, and centered) for a neat layout.
- Align design elements — headers, images, and text —properly.
- Make spacing consistent throughout your design. Remember to leave white space on your layout to give your content a balanced look. This helps make your design easier to read.
Size. Color. Material. It's all here, and more.
6 Paper/Stock Options
100 lb. Paper Gloss
- The most popular and highly recommended choice
- Thicker than a standard magazine page
- Gloss coating is smooth, shiny, and fade-resistant
- Great for artwork that has images and text
- Foldable and easy to keep for future reference
- Gloss coating comes with a shiny finish and prints colors in vivid detail
- Has a fade-resistant surface
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100 lb. Paper Matte
- Thicker than a standard magazine page
- Matte softens colors for a more elegant look
- Less glare makes text easier to read
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10 pt. Cardstock Gloss
- Durable cardstock that’s scored prior to folding
- Glossy finish provides vibrant coloring
- Scratch and scuff-resistant coating
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10 pt. Cardstock Matte
- Durable cardstock that’s scored prior to folding
- Matte coating produces an elegant, muted hue
- Writable surface for ballpoint pens and permanent markers
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70 lb. Paper Uncoated
- The thinnest and lightest paper stock available
- Thrice the weight of regular (20 lb.) copy paper
- Ideal for brochures with return forms
- Has a smooth, writable surface on both sides
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80 lb. Paper Gloss
- Slightly thicker and heavier than 70 lb. paper
- Medium weight makes it easy to hand out
- Gloss coating brightens colors and adds shine
Brochure templates.
Save time by using our free templates. Our templates have been set up with proper bleeds and margins, assuring your print job turns out accurately. To download, select a file type and click on the size below. Note that all sizes indicated show the brochure measurements before folding.
Customer Questions
All our printing is done using CMYK format which is also the standard for the online printing industry. Although, we convert all Pantone or RGB colors to CMYK, it would be best to create your design using CMYK so your colors will be closer to what will come out in the final printing run.
You can estimate the price in the Configure and Price area. You need to select a size (the standard would be 8.5" x 11"), you may select the 100 lb paper gloss as material (this is the standard material selected for brochures that are not too rigid), Select Tri-Fold/Letter fold and then choose Outside and Inside for "Printed Side". A quantity of 500 would cost around $219.85 on a three business printing turnaround (tax not included). You can then type in your zip code in the "Estimate Shipping and Delivery" link to get the shipping cost based on the delivery option you choose. Please take note that printing and shipping transit times are separate. The turnaround time will only start a day after you approve your proof and make payment.
It sounds doable. If you mean inserting your image into a design that is 10" x 7" flat, you can set up the design on Photoshop or any other design application, indicating folding lines and cut lines. Make sure to extend your artwork .125" outside the trimline for bleeds and the same size (measured from the trimline inwards) for your safe zone. Once this is done, send it to us by creating an order online and using the "Upload Your File and Order Now" link. Select the free PDF proof option to make sure it is set up properly before placing the order. It takes around 6-12 hours for a free proof.
Another option would be to set up the flat size of your brochure in the Configure and Price area on the Brochures page. Once you have selected all the options you need (including folding) click on "Create Your Design Online" link which will allow you to set up your entire brochure by typing in all your text, selecting a background color and inserting your image. Once your done, save it. If you want to see a free PDF proof to be extra careful, give us a call first and let us know so we can grab your file for proofing. If you want to print based on what you see on your design, go ahead and place the order so the job goes straight to production.
Unfortunately, we need digital files to print. We can have the entire brochure possibly redone through our Design Team. Please create an account online and speak to a Design Team Representative so they can check your existing materials and give you a quote if the materials at hand can be redone.
Yes, we can print that for you. You may wish to check our Short-Run Booklet Page. However, for booklets, you will need the total pages to be in multiples of four so it should be either 24 or 28 pages. Also, if these are workbooks and youi need them to be written on, you will need to use uncoated paper. Please give us a call for a quote as our Custom Department will need to process any changes from the standard options.
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