I only have a black and white printer. I also don’t know if it would be hilarious or mortifying if I made / found the design for those and took them somewhere to have professionally printed 😂
Once-upon-a-time print shop employee here: the secret to professional-looking print media is good paper. Almost everything except insanely high volume products is are printed on a color laser printer, and most of the useful difference between a cheap Brother printer and a five-figure digital press has to do with printing larger pages, faster, on both sides automatically and/or on cardstock. If you’re patient, have a small color laser printer, a good template for designing trifold brochures, and don’t need anything bigger than 8.5x11, you can have as many oddly specific pamphlets as your heart desires!
I’ve got a laser printer, but it’s only monochrome. I do have some friends that print photos (I just have mine printed at walmart). Maybe I can get some good paper stock and call in a favor. I’d still need to design them, but that part I can probably handle.
Thinking out loud here, so forgive me, but I’d like to do something where they’re printed in color as a template and I can load those in my B&W printer to print the actual text so I can personalize them as-needed.
The trick is to walk in confidently and make eye contact with the person working at the print shop. Act like it’s a totally normal brochure. Try not to laugh.
I only have a black and white printer. I also don’t know if it would be hilarious or mortifying if I made / found the design for those and took them somewhere to have professionally printed 😂
Once-upon-a-time print shop employee here: the secret to professional-looking print media is good paper. Almost everything except insanely high volume products is are printed on a color laser printer, and most of the useful difference between a cheap Brother printer and a five-figure digital press has to do with printing larger pages, faster, on both sides automatically and/or on cardstock. If you’re patient, have a small color laser printer, a good template for designing trifold brochures, and don’t need anything bigger than 8.5x11, you can have as many oddly specific pamphlets as your heart desires!
I’ve got a laser printer, but it’s only monochrome. I do have some friends that print photos (I just have mine printed at walmart). Maybe I can get some good paper stock and call in a favor. I’d still need to design them, but that part I can probably handle.
Thinking out loud here, so forgive me, but I’d like to do something where they’re printed in color as a template and I can load those in my B&W printer to print the actual text so I can personalize them as-needed.
The trick is to walk in confidently and make eye contact with the person working at the print shop. Act like it’s a totally normal brochure. Try not to laugh.