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I usually use MS Word sometimes MS Publisher.
When I did use a professional printer they converted the files from word.
I also have a design company, I provide a cost effective service a half way house between using a full blown design agency and doing it your self. I work with clients who already have a brand/logo in place but need additional marketing materials at an affordable price. I can also sort out the printing element of the project.
http://www.openoffice.org/
I use Page Plus X4 from Serif.
The first version I used was about version 4, around 15 years ago.
It's fantastic software at good value rates. Latest release, X4 is selling at £80 but if you call them you might get an older release for a cheaper price if you want.
Highly recommended, full of features but pretty easy to use ;)
Which printer did you buy, and how much does it cost per page (A4?) to run? We're just about to have some leaflets printed, but would be interested to know if we could do it ourselves cost-effectively.
Fenlandphil said:
http://www.serif.com/AllProducts/Software/DesktopPublishing/
Nick Steele said:
It is an Epson B-500DN It came with standard cartridges and I got 100+24 page colour catalogues out of it (6 a 4 sheets per catalogue printed both sides) together with black and white double sided price lists. A set of high capacity cartridges cost about £160 and I am still using them so don't know actual cost to me, Epson reckon on up to 4000 pages per high capacity colour cartridge but obviously it depends on how much colour you are using on a page. A black cartridge can give up to 7000 pages. The printer has the facility to alter the print density so you can optimise the amount of ink you are putting on the page, that way you can control whether it shows through the paper when printing both sides, it also does duplex printing so in the case of the price lists I can run them through printing both sides without using the other paper tray, which I do with the catalogues. If I was doing several thousand copies of say a flyer I would have it printed professionally but for our catalogues where volumes are relatively low it has so far worked out well.
Nick Steele said:
Fenlandphil said:
That's not a bad price. Depending on whether you're buying from a local printer or buying on-line, you could always ask a local guy for a price for 1,000 and 1,000 run on. You'd expect to pay more than 20% of £180 for the first 1,000 because of the aformentioned "set up" costs but your following 1,000's should be cheaper. There' lots of other factors to consider when designing and printing your own e.g. paper weight, do you want your design to "bleed" i.e. go right to the edge of the paper etc. This can't be done with an A4 colour injet or laser.