Do you have a home computer, a printer and some graphic software.  If so, you can have your own desktop publishing business.

Desktop Publishers prepare documents for electronic use, and they have the ability to publish for print.  Desktop publishing eliminates and replaces the services once provided by a layout artist, typesetting service, color separator, and sometimes the printer.  Scanning images that are to be used for documents into the computer is another role for the Desktop Publisher.

The market for both print and electronic is extensive!  Organizations of all kinds need material for their internal and external communications.  Most organizations need memos, training manuals, annual reports, quarterly journals, sales brochures and ads and more.

Proposals, flyers, newsletters, reports and presentation materials can look professionally done and be produced quickly for both print and web use. Because many people have the ability to produce print and web material with their own software, a professional Desktop Publisher  must offer something special.  How Magazine can help you with this. How magazine serves the business, technological and creative needs of graphic design professionals.  Each issue of How magazine features profiles of influential designers, technological tips and behind the scenes of noteworthy projects. 

You can take on any work that comes your way if you want to but most Desktop Publishers focus on specific industries, sizes or types of clients, or selected types of documents.  You can specialize in newsletters or catalogs, but you can specialize even further by doing only newsletters for restaurants or health clubs or catalogs for mail order craft companies.  The possibilities are only limited by your imagination. 

To keep customers, just try to produce a product that is better than what the client could do for himself. Desktop Publishing work can be done at home, but someone skilled in this field may also work on-site for client companies.