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Images Versus Text In Brochure Printing

people think that texts or images should be the primary focus in printing full color brochures for marketing

By: Lynne Saarte
Category: Marketing:Advertising
Posted: Jun 23, 2011
Updated: Jun 23, 2011
Views: 34


What do you think is best when it comes to brochure printing? Do you think more images can help it? Or do you think that more text is a lot better? In this special article about printing brochures, I will discuss with you all the points on both sides of this argument in brochure printing and design. Many people think that images or text should be the primary focus in printing full color brochures for marketing. Let me reveal to you however the real facts about it so that you can decide for yourself.

1. Advantages of being a more textual brochure. Brochures that are text heavy have one very big advantage, and that is content detail of course. With more text, you can explain a lot more, and of course communicate your marketing message a lot clearer and a lot better. Of course, blocks of text are not the most ideal here. It is important that you chunk those texts up so that they are easier to read.

If you for example list down your items or provide helpful text boxes, people can easily retain the information you need. People tend to remember what your message is this way, making for a more informative and potent color brochure. With this kind of brochure you will really get your message across to people without really boring them.

2. Advantages of being a more visual with brochures. Now, the advantages of a more visual color brochure for marketing are pretty obvious. They are if course more appealing and eye-catching to most audiences. The better looking a brochure is the better its impact on readers. Moreover, if you are facing tough competition with other brochure marketing prints, then most probably a better more visually creative color brochure can help you compete toe to toe with your rivals. That is why it is sometimes good to be more visual and have more images in your full color brochures.

3. When one or the other is appropriate. Now, let me specify for you further when one or the other kind of brochure layout is best for you.

a. When text brochures are best. More text type brochures are best if you are selling or promoting something that has lots of important details to it that people actually need to know. Typically products with very precise specifications need this type of brochure so that the potential customers can read through them and of course determine if that product has all the things that they need.

Also of course, information awareness campaigns have color brochures that are more text oriented since they need to communicate more details in one fell sweep. So generally, if you need to convey more specific information it is more effective to go for text-oriented layouts.

b. When image brochures are best. More visually oriented brochure layouts are needed typically when your audiences are picky and your rivals or competitors are numerous. This is because you will need the power of those images to attract and pull readers into actually reading your color brochures. That is why you should always use more image oriented designs where you face really tough competition visually with your brochures.

4. Achieving that perfect balance. Keep in mind though that the best color brochures are still always made up of the perfect balance between text and images. Balancing both helps your custom brochures be more effective to a wider amount of people both in terms of information dissemination and visual impact. So whenever possible, always try to achieve that perfect balance.

Now it should be easier for you to decide if you need more text or more images in your brochure printing.

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