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Brochures and Newsletters
We specialize in creating high-quality visual communication tools tailored to support your ministry and help in sharing the Gospel—offered at an affordable price.
Each brochure or newsletter is custom-designed to reflect the unique identity of your church or ministry. We do not use templates; instead, we work closely with you to ensure the final product clearly communicates your message and strengthens your outreach.
A few uses for Brochures
Provide an overview of your ministry or church
Highlight specific programs or areas of service
Invite others to get involved
Support fundraising efforts
Promote or invite others to upcoming events
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Half-fold then tri-fold Newsletter -
Tri-fold brochure
Design Services
- File Preparation for designs you do: We ensure your design fits printer templates and enhance image quality. The first hour of this service is free.
- Graphic Design Fees for custom brochures or Newsletters: $20 per hour, with free consultation.
- Brochures come in a variety of sizes and folds. This will affect the design time as will the quality of images and the number of revisions.
- Average design time for a standard 8.5″ x 11″, 3 fold brochure ranges from 2-5 hours ($40 – $100).
- Important: Brochure printing typically requires more time than flat designs, especially those with intricate folds. Please allow extra time for production. Contact us for estimated print timelines.
Ways toStreamline Your Design Process
Our aim is always to provide you with a professional quality product for the least cost possible. This means keeping your design time down. To do that:
- Send us ideas you have; sketches, mock ups, other brochures or designs you like so we can hit your design preference right off.
- Send us images of other promotional pieces you have so we can coordinate your look.
- Send clear clean copy. We can edit it for you if needed.
- Send good quality images. (As they came from the camera, unaltered or cropped please)
- If we don’t have it on file send the best quality logo you have.
Printing/publishing
- We can prepare your brochure or newsletter for the printer of your choice or manage the offset printing process on your behalf—ensuring the best balance of quality and cost.
- In some cases, we’re able to print newsletters in-house; however, please note these will include a white border.
- NOTE: Brochure printing takes longer than flat designs, especially ones with complicated folds. Please allow for this. Contact us for estimated print times.
- We also offer professionally designed digital newsletters formatted for platforms such as Mailchimp, Constant Contact, and other email service providers.
Ownership & File Management
- You retain 100% ownership of your artwork.
- We store your files for easy reprints or updates.
- If your logo requires adjustments for professional print, we will optimize it and provide you with all necessary formats, including scalable vector files. For your convenience, we also keep these files on hand for future use.
One of the things that takes up unnecessary design time is fixing up poor quality images or finding images. Here are resources for you to assist in that process.
Resources for free images
Here are some websites we frequently use to obtain background or illustration images. You can download the images of your choice and send them to us or just send us the link.
(Be aware that all images on these sites are not royalty free without a fee. Make sure you filter for public domain images.)
Blog to help you collect the pieces for your literature
How to use templates
Print Quality: 3oo dpi. This includes the images used. For software like Canva, Publisher, and the like save out at Print Quality in a PDF.
Color space: CMYK. If you submit your design in RGB we will convert it. Note that CMYK is a smaller color space so there may be some color shifting. We will notify you if it is significant.
Bleed: 0.125″ The bleed is built into the templates. It is necessary to have color go all the way to the edges when the brochure is cropped after printing. Please make sure all background elements go into the bleed area.
Margins: Typically 0.125″ – .25″ depending on the printer. Please keep text inside these margins
Submitting designs
We will send a link for you to send files to us.
- Hide templates
- Submit designs in layers. We check all files thoroughly for print. This lets us easily make any corrections needed.
- Send in PDF, AI (embed images), INDD (package), PSD. We work in Adobe. If working in Quark or other software please send in PDF.
- Rasterize or turn fonts to outlines.
- Zip files for ease of uploading.
Standard Templates:
If you wish to submit your own design for print, or even to start one and let us finish it off for you we can provide templates for you. Below are some of the most common templates. Custom sizes and folds are available upon request.
Common papers for these products are
- 100 lb gloss cover (like the cover of a magazine).
- 100 lb gloss text (the most common paper for brochures)
- 100 lb Matte text (use when you want people to be able to write on the brochure, like on a form)
- 80 lb gloss text
- 80 lb matte text (so you can write on them)
- 70 lb opaque white smooth
Products may be ordered with or without UV coatings. Other specialty papers, raised ink options, and other coatings available.
- There are multitudes of sizes and folds you can order.
- Templates are provided in jpg or pdf, which can be used in any software. If you need an InDesign or Illustrator file please let us know
- If you do not see the one you are looking for please contact us:
Contact us to start a project for you today
This form is to open the conversation. Our desire is to work with you personally, endeavoring to give you the best product we can for your ministry dollar. If you have design sketches, images, or a finished design for print we will send you a link to upload them or you can email to gsorders@techteam.org.
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TECH Team works with like-minded, nonprofit Christian ministries and churches and their workers. For individual missionaries, all projects are opened under the ministry or church that receives your funding.
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We have an established policy of only providing our services and products to like-minded organizations. Please see our Eligibility section to learn more.
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