Flyer Printing in Dubai: Printed by the Thousand, Read for Four Seconds
A flyer is one unfolded sheet, printed in volume, handed out or dropped through a door. Flyer printing in Dubai is the cheapest printed item per piece that exists, and every decision about it follows from the fact that most of them are discarded within a minute.
Quantity: 100 flyers · Size: A5 — 148 × 210 mm · Paper stock: 135gsm Gloss · Printed sides: Single sided · Turnaround: Standard — 2 working days
An estimator replies with a firm, VAT-inclusive price and a production date.From your file to the finished job.
Six steps happen between the brief and the finished job. Here they are, in the order they happen on our floor in Dubai South.
Volume Is Where the Price Collapses
With no folding, binding or finishing, a flyer is simply ink on a sheet that gets cut. Move from five hundred to five thousand and the unit cost falls away sharply, because the press setup is spread across a far longer run.
Light Stock Is the Correct Choice
Around one hundred and thirty to one hundred and seventy grams is the normal range. Heavier feels better in the hand and costs noticeably more across thousands, and the person receiving it is not weighing it. Save the heavy stock for things people keep.
One Message, Read at Arm's Length
A flyer gets a glance while somebody is walking. One offer, one date, one way to respond. A flyer carrying four messages communicates none of them, which is the most common fault in flyer artwork by a wide margin.
Distribution Shapes the Design
Handed out at a mall, the top third is what shows above a hand. Dropped through a letterbox, it is seen folded on a mat. Inserted in a newspaper, it has to survive being shaken out. Each of those puts the message in a different place.
A5 and A6 Are the Working Sizes
A5 is the standard handout and A6 the pocketable one. Both cut efficiently from a press sheet with no waste, which is part of why they are standard and part of why they are cheap.
Printed, Trimmed and Banded
Flyers arrive in banded bundles of a known count, which is what a distribution team needs to split a drop between streets without counting.
The uncomfortable arithmetic is response. Flyers work on volume and a low response rate, so the numbers only make sense in thousands. If you are printing two hundred and hoping for results, the quantity is wrong and some other format will serve you better.
Compare with brochure printing, coupon printing, and marketing collateral printing.
What you get.
- Size
- A6 — 105 × 148 mm · DL — 99 × 210 mm · A5 — 148 × 210 mm · A4 — 210 × 297 mm
- Paper stock
- 135gsm Gloss · 170gsm Gloss · 300gsm Matt
- Printed sides
- Single sided · Double sided
- Turnaround
- Standard — 2 working days · Same day (approve before 11am)
- Quantities
- 100 · 250 · 500 · 1,000 · 2,500 · 5,000 flyers, or any other number
- Proof
- A digital proof before anything prints
- Delivery
- All seven emirates, or collect from Dubai South
What every order includes
- A free prepress check on your file
- A digital proof before anything prints
- One VAT-inclusive quote with a production date
- Delivery to all seven emirates, or collection from Dubai South
Setting up your file.
- 01Work at the finished sizeSet the page to the exact trimmed size of the piece, not a larger sheet with crop marks drawn in.
- 02Add 3 mm bleedRun background colour and images 3 mm past every edge that gets trimmed, so no white line shows after cutting.
- 03Keep text off the edgeHold text and logos at least 4 mm inside the trim line, clear of the blade.
- 04Send a print-ready PDFCMYK, fonts embedded or outlined, images at 300 dpi at final size. AI, EPS and high-resolution JPEG also work.
Quick answers.
One hundred and thirty to one hundred and seventy grams.
A5 for handouts, A6 for pockets.
Thousands. The economics only work at volume.