In our churches today, with the use of desktop publishing software, we can create almost any communication church bulletins, newsletters, postcards, flyers and brochures. But just because we can create these things in our computers doesn t mean that the finished product has the quality desired to get our message into the hands of the people that need it. To ensure that our message is read we ve got to produce the final output of our creations in a quality professional manner. Typically in the church this is done through a copier.
Copiers are very useful, but they have limitations.
Copiers only print in black and are limited in the kinds of paper you can put through them. Card stock, envelopes and special papers aren t possible in most situations. Copiers also heat up on longer runs which can cause paper jams and production delays which always seem to happen late in the afternoon just when you are trying to get the bulletin finished. In an effort to add color some churches print desktop publishing projects using an ink jet printer. Again, these are great for very short runs, but if you want to run more than a dozen copies, the cost can be excessive and the speeds of the ink jet printer in full color mode are really slow.