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Old October 6th, 2008 Oct 6, 2008 8:51:12 AM -   #1 (permalink)
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So whats the cheapest way to make up a catalog??? And where do i go to make them up nice???
 
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Default Re: what's the cheapest way to make a catalog? where do I go to make them up nice?

Those two statements are a bit at opposite ends of the spectrum (cheapest and nice)

If you search the forums for catalogs, you'll find a few different ways that people have made up catalogs.

Cheap would probably be just printing up a few on your desktop printer and creating the layout in photoshop or something similar.

Nice would be googling custom printed catalogs and finding a service like psprint or another offset or digital printer to make some up for you.
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Old October 6th, 2008 Oct 6, 2008 9:05:02 AM -   #3 (permalink)
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Default Re: what's the cheapest way to make a catalog? where do I go to make them up nice?

I make my own catalogs with PrintMaster/Photo Shop and a laser printer. If you are creative try it. Otherwise your local Office Depot or Kinko's could help.
 
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Default Re: what's the cheapest way to make a catalog? where do I go to make them up nice?

What graphics program do you have now? You could use corel, illustrator, photoshop, word, etc. and then output it to pdf. From there you would have a digital catalog plus be able to send it anywhere for paper printing.
 
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OoOo thanks, yeah I have Photoshop 6.0 but dont know how to use it, lol and I also have Micrografx Windows Draw...
 
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Default Re: what's the cheapest way to make a catalog? where do I go to make them up nice?

Another thing to save money is to just make a catalog on cd
 
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How do you make one on cd???
 
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Default Re: what's the cheapest way to make a catalog? where do I go to make them up nice?

to make on cd...create the pages(s) in your graphic program...then just save to a blank CD...there are some inexpensive inkjet printers that will print on special CDs..
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to make on cd...create the pages(s) in your graphic program...then just save to a blank CD...there are some inexpensive inkjet printers that will print on special CDs..
You would still want to output it to a pdf, jpeg, etc. so it's readable to the masses. Otherwise if you save it to your graphic program extension, most will not be able to read it.

CD output is oldschool. Simply create a pdf and you can send it to anyone who has an email address and it can be accessed by anyone who downloads it off the net.
 
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So0o basically its just like saving pics from your computer to a CD???
 
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So0o basically its just like saving pics from your computer to a CD???
That would be one way to do it, but it would look more professional if you put it all together in a PDF presentation.

I think there are websites that will make PDFs for you, or I'm sure you wouldn't have to pay a designer much to slap something together for you.
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