Free Brochure Design

If you like this design for your company brochure, check out www.StockLayouts.com

They provide some free designs for testing out. This ones also comes with a complete marketing collateral kit (is this what you guys call the complete design kit?)

Using MS Word

In addition to professional files like Quark or InDesign, they also provide these designs in Word and Publisher format. Handy for folks who don't know / own professional design tools.

Printing

Remember to test print with a printer before you order large quantities. Printing from Publisher and Word especially causes headaches with the Printer.

Kinkos can take a PDF output from Word or Publisher and do an OK job. Create a PDF, upload to Kinkos through their web site (or print driver) and ask for 10 or so copies first.

Bleed

Note that these designs also have bleed - the color extending all the way to the edge of the paper. You may have to explicitly let Kinkos know and they might ask you to do some extra work in Word/Publisher to accomodate this. Trust me, without bleeds, these designs will look rather ordinary and broken!

Good luck and drop a note on this blog with your experience and issues.