Leaflets and flyers

Lots of groups use our print room to print leaflets and flyers. They are a really useful way of advertising an event, publicising a campaign or inviting people to a local meeting.

You can print them in colour or black and white, but the Resource Centre is particularly good value if you want to print a lot of copies, and are happy with a black image on a white or coloured background. We will show you how to use our copyprinters to do this –  they are very fast and straightforward.

There are various formats you can use to design leaflets and flyers. These are some of them.

• A6 flyers
• A5 flyers
• A4 leaflets
• A5 leaflets (A4 folded in half)
• DL leaflets (A4 folded into thirds)

A6 flyers

You can make A6 flyers at the Resource Centre by printing four flyers on an A4 page, and then cutting them using our electric guillotine. You can print them in colour or black and white. We have a wide range of paper and card available – A6 flyers can be a bit flimsy on thin paper, so you may prefer to use card.

We have designed templates in Microsoft Publisher to help you lay out your flyers.

• 4 x A6 flyer
• 4 x A6 flyer landscape

If you don’t have Microsoft Publisher, you can lay them out at the Resource Centre using one of our computers. If you bring your flyer design as a JPEG you can just drop it into our template – we can show you how to do this if that doesn’t make sense!

If you are planning to bring your flyers in as a PDF, make sure they are already laid out four to a page for the best and quickest results.

Double sided A6 flyers

If you are planning to make more than 200 double sided A6 flyers (50 sheets of A4), the cheapest way to do this is to print them in black ink on a copyprinter.

The expensive part of printing on a copyprinter is making a stencil of your artwork (which the machine must do before it prints it onto paper). If you lay your flyers out with the fronts and backs both on one sheet of A4 in a certain order, you only need to cut one stencil to do double sided printing. You end up printing the same image on the back and front of the A4 sheet, but line it up correctly so that the backs of the flyers print onto the fronts and vice versa. This is the cheapest way to print double sided A6 flyers.

You should lay your flyers out like this:

A5 flyers

You can make A5 flyers at the Resource Centre by printing two flyers to an A4 page, and then cutting them using our electric guillotine. You can print them in colour or black and white. We have a wide range of paper and card available.

We have designed templates in Microsoft Publisher to help you lay out your flyers.

2 x A5 flyer

If you don’t have Microsoft Publisher, you can lay them out when you get here using one of our computers if you bring your flyer design as a JPEG.

If you are planning to bring your flyers in as a PDF, make sure they are already laid out two to a page.

Double sided A5 flyers

If you are planing to make more than 100 double sided A5 flyers (50 sheets of A4), the cheapest way to do this is print them in black ink on a copyprinter.

The expensive part of printing on a copyprinter is making a stencil of your artwork (which the machine must do before it prints it onto paper). If you lay your flyers out with the front and back both on one sheet of A4, you only need to cut one stencil to do double sided printing. You end up printing the same image on the back and front of the A4 sheet, but line it up correctly so that the back of the flyer prints onto the front and vice versa. This is the cheapest way to print double sided A5 flyers.

You should lay your flyers out like this:

A4 leaflets

You may want to make A4 leaflets if you need the text to be quite big and you need to include quite a lot of information. A4 leaflets, folded in half or thirds, can be a good format for putting through people’s letter boxes to advertise a public meeting or local neighbourhood event. You can use our folding machine if you want to do this.

You can your print leaflets in colour or black and white. We have a wide range of paper and card available. If you are planning to fold your leaflets, it’s best to use paper rather than card.

A5 leaflets (A4 folded in half)

You can make 4 page A5 leaflets by printing 4 A5 pages onto one sheet of A4 paper, in booklet format, and then folding your leaflets in half using our folding machine. This is a useful format for leaflets that need to be easy to hand out (where an A4 leaflet might be a bit unwieldy), but need to contain a lot of information. They might suit you if you are trying to share a lot of information about a campaign or issue. For design tips look at our information on designing booklets.

DL leaflets (A4 folded into thirds)

This is a popular format for leaflets that need to contain different pieces of information, as it provides a useful way of separating the content into six distinct sections.

There are two ways of folding these:

• Z fold: The paper in folded into a Z shape, so that no part of it is tucked in. To read the whole leaflet you need to unfold it completely.  
• Letter fold: The paper is folded so that one edge is tucked under the other edge. This is a more common way of folding leaflets.

You need to decide which way you want to fold your leaflets before you start, so that you can design the pages in the right order.

You can your print leaflets in colour or black and white. We have a wide range of paper and card available.