Do you need to invest in newsletter printing?

Sometimes it is hard to decide on what print medium you need to use for your organization or company. There are plenty of mediums to choose from. You have brochures, booklets, catalogs and of course you can also invest in newsletter printing. There are many questions that need to be answered so that you can decide on the correct medium that you need. For newsletter printing, we have this small checklist for you that you can use. If you answer yes to most of these questions then you might want to consider investing in newsletter printing for your goals. So let's get started.

Is my Audience numerous enough? A newsletter is a medium that is catered for a wide audience. Since its focus is on bringing news to people, image and paper quality are sometimes sacrificed to get the most amount of copies that can be printed. With the maximum number newsletter copies printed, this in turn maximizes the distribution of the news to the most number of people. So if your primary goal is to reach a wide audience of around 100 or more, then newsletter printing is for you. If however you are just want to reach a group of 10 or 20 so people, you may want to decide on another print medium.

Is my content News? Newsletters are named newsletters because of course they carry some news. If it carried short stories or other works of fiction then they may have named it "Featureletters" or something like that. Since it is a newsletter, the content should be written in news style. This means the content should be about facts, announcements and other crucial information. So if your goals are to distribute these kinds of information (such as the case with public relations newsletters, organizational publications and other related material) then you should consider printing newsletters. If your content is more on the advertising side, with a whole lot more flowery words and praises then you should try brochure printing instead.

Are my release times right for newsletter printing? Like newspapers, most newsletters should typically be produced within certain time periods. This keeps to its nature of giving news and updates of that news. If you plan on releasing your information and news in a monthly, quarterly, biannually or yearly basis then you more or less have a newsletter. If however you are releasing your information in a time period that is more than that, or if you don't have any idea when your next release will happen then you might want to try printing a booklet or brochure instead.

Is my priority quality or exposure? Since the priority of newsletters is the exposure of information to the widest audience possible this means you need to invest in a significant amount of resources to print them in numbers. This means you may want to sacrifice some of the paper and print quality to get more newsletter prints. If you are in a budget and you want to maximize exposure of your news, then you can definitely go for newsletter printing. However if you want to maximize the impact of your content by creating high quality designs on good paper, this will lessen the amount of prints that you can make given a budget. If design impact is more your priority, you might want to try another print medium. Of course, if you have the money to print a lot and in good quality you won't have this problem.