Program Printing

Event Programs are printed booklets, brochures, catalogs, or pamphlets for the guests at your events: they help you share all the information you need attendees to know. Use them to clearly lay out the order of activities, list participants, or add special notes about your gathering or organization. They also make excellent keepsakes for attendees. Event Programs are the perfect place to express your thanks to anyone who provided promotional items, donated funds, or did volunteer work for your event.

Event Programs keep things running smoothly by providing schedules, descriptions, maps, and a catalog of other details that your guests will need, in a handy booklet format they can carry around with them all day. They're a great way to communicate the organization of your event with introductions, steps, and duration of activities. Nonprofit organizations can use programs to highlight addresses to which charitable donations may be sent. You can also use them to spotlight and provide thanks to participants, volunteers, and other worthy parties.

Increase your sponsor rolls by providing advertising space anywhere in your Event Programs, just like an ad book! Selling advertising space is beneficial to you, your sponsors, and your guests. Plus, you can use previous years' Event Programs to attract other advertisers in future years. Viewing a well-designed Event Program offers potential sponsors tangible evidence of the benefit of supporting you.

It's entirely up to you what information you should include in your Event Programs, but many people use some or all of the following:

• Introductory message
• Schedule of events, including order and duration
• Maps or diagrams of large venues
• Catalogs of items for sale
• Names of participants, speakers, entertainment, and special guests
• Names of events and activities
• List of sponsors, along with paid sponsor advertisements
• List of volunteers
• Additional interesting information about you, your organization, and your mission
• Addresses for post office boxes or websites where donations may be sent
• Additional interesting information about your event
• Photos of relevant groups or individuals
• Photos of past events
• Calendar of upcoming events

Space considerations are a balancing act. Your Event Program should provide enough information without overwhelming the reader. Your font size needs to be large enough to remain easily readable, but small enough to allow room for all of your details. Contact our Customer Support Specialists at 855.798.0799 for advice once you have compiled your information and they can advise you regarding the best length for your programs.

Our shortest Event Program is 4 pages. (Front cover is page 1, inside cover is page 2, inside back cover is page 3, and back cover is page 4.) We can print brochures up to 64 pages long. You can choose from two sizes: 8.5" x 5.5" or 8.5" x 11"

Our programs are printed on both sides of the paper.

Your Event Programs will be created as single fold documents (a single fold refers to one fold, directly in the centre of the printed sheet, meaning a single sheet translates into a 4-page Event Program) so 4-page programs will not be bound. Single fold programs are perfect for small events such as music or dance recitals, school plays or concerts, community variety shows, or other short, local events.

Larger Event Programs will be bound with a saddle stitch: a thin wire seam. Please note that the single fold style means that the number of pages in your booklet will be divisible by 4!

You can add any design to your Event Programs. Our expert Graphic Designers can use your custom images to match your event and make your guides unique and relevant to your organization or gathering. Design time starts at $35.00 per hour for a 4-page document; call customer service for quotes on larger order. In selecting images, choose 300 dpi resolution in a common format: PDF, JPEG, GIF, or TIFF are acceptable file formats. We can also use the artwork from tickets or other printed templates you have ordered from us. Any image you have a legal right to reproduce can be added to your programs.

Yes! You can phone our friendly Customer Support Specialists at 888.771.0809 to request a free sample of our Event Programs.

You will also be required to approve an electronic version of the proof before we can begin processing. We never begin printing until you're satisfied with the proof. Proofs typically take two days to create, depending on how much design and layout work your Event Program requires. If you a desire a printed proof, we are more than happy to send it via Next Day Air. Please realize that this will delay the start of processing by at least one business day.

The proof will be available no later than 2 business days. In this time, we will create your digital proof and email it to you.

Once you approve the proof, we will begin processing. Programs that are 4 pages long, with orders of 5000 or less, will ship on the 4th business day after approval. Larger print runs, or programs of 8 to 32 pages, with orders of 10,000 or less, will ship by the 6th business day after approval. If you have further questions, please ask our friendly customer service reps for more information by calling 888.771.0809.

You may choose your shipping preference. Standard Ground Shipping is available, or, if time is an issue, you may pay for faster shipping. Shipping quotes are included with the product quote.