Printed materials
Professional printouts define your business.
The handouts you distribute at or in connection with your presentation – your own and/or of your company/department/project – are numerous by type. Some popular printed materials are listed below, though the list is not meant to be exhaustive:
Books
Literary works; proceedings of conferences, workshops, work meetings, professional congresses.
Textbooks, dictionaries, scientific monographs.
Reports
Project progress reports, project proposals, papers, white papers, printed presentation handouts, preprints, reprints.
Brochures
Booklets, broshures, papers.
Leaflets and flyers
Printed materials with no binding, possibly with one or several folds. Fact sheets.
Folders
Folder handouts with or without pockets.
Advertisements
One or two-sided printed sheets to be distributed.
Badges and business (visiting) cards
Individual badges to be worn during conferences, seminars, workshops, work meetings, professional congresses. Standard and non-standard size Visiting cards, one or two sided, black and white or colored.
Standard-sized business cards in Europe are usually 9 by 5 cm.
Posters and banners
Every mass event needs a few posters and/or banners for internal decoration, as well as to show the way.
Magazines and bulletins
Typically magazines, published as electronic editions need a few hardcopy printouts for special purposes, like public libraries, archives, a few special readers.
Bulletins are periodicals ususlly published regularly or daily during an event, like a seminar, congress, workshop.
