Brochures, flyers, catalogs and packaging copy in 326 languages, print-ready.
Last reviewed August 23, 2026 by the Prism Linguistics editorial team
Prism Linguistics translates brochures, flyers, catalogs and other marketing print for US businesses in 326 languages. Marketing copy is adapted, not just converted: headlines get transcreation, layouts get desktop publishing in InDesign, and a linguist proofs the finished pages before they go to press. Quotes come back within 60 minutes during business hours.
A brochure has one job: to make somebody want what you sell, and that job doesn't survive a careless translation. The Spanish or Vietnamese edition will sit next to the English one at the same trade-show booth, and it has to carry the same weight. Here's how we translate marketing print, and what it typically costs.
A contract has to be exact; a brochure has to persuade, and the words that persuade in English are rarely the ones that persuade in Korean. So we match marketing material to translators who can write: native speakers with a track record in persuasive copy, chosen for your sector as well as your language pair. A brochure for a Houston energy firm and a menu for a Miami restaurant need different voices, and we pick accordingly.
Every project gets a second-linguist review, and your terminology decisions go into a glossary kept on your account, so next year's reprint only costs you the words that changed. Companies producing wider collateral, from annual reports to sales decks, usually pair this with our business translation services.
The marketing print we handle most often for US clients.
Corporate and product brochures, folded leaflets, flyers and direct-mail pieces, returned print-ready or as copy for your designer.
Catalogs, range guides and price lists, with a glossary so repeating product terms stay identical across hundreds of entries.
Restaurant menus, food packaging, on-pack instructions and labels, translated to fit the fixed space on the panel.
Booth panels, exhibition handouts, banners and giveaway inserts, ready before the show opens in Chicago or Las Vegas.
Clinic and hospital leaflets for patients with limited English, supporting Section 1557 language-access obligations. See our healthcare translation work.
Open-enrollment guides, employee handbooks and safety posters for multilingual workforces across all 50 states.
Transcreation means recreating the effect of a line rather than its words. The linguist reads the English headline, works out what it's doing, and writes a new line in the target language that does the same job. For taglines we usually send back two or three options with a plain-English back-translation of each, so you can see exactly what they say before you choose.
Most of a brochure doesn't need that treatment. Product descriptions and practical details translate directly, so you shouldn't pay transcreation rates for them. The trick is splitting the copy correctly before work starts, which is exactly what our quote does.
| Brochure content | Best approach | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Product descriptions and specs | Literal translation | Facts must survive intact; accuracy matters more than flair. |
| Headlines, taglines, calls to action | Transcreation | Wordplay and tone rarely survive a word-for-word version. |
| Packaging copy and labels | Transcreation within space limits | The panel is a fixed size; the line has to fit and still sell. |
| Legal lines and disclaimers | Literal translation | Regulated wording must not drift in meaning. |
If your whole product, app or website needs cultural adaptation rather than one campaign piece, that's our localization service. Web pages and landing pages belong with website translation.
Translated text is almost never the same length as the original, and this is where brochure projects go wrong. Spanish typically runs about 20 percent longer than English, and German longer still. Arabic and Hebrew read right to left, so the entire grid mirrors. None of this is a problem if you know before the artwork locks; all of it is a problem the week of your print date.
Send us the InDesign package (IDML or INDD) or a print-ready PDF and we work directly in the file. Our desktop publishing team reflows text, fixes bad line breaks, and checks that your fonts actually contain the accented characters the target language needs. You get back either final print-ready files or clean translated copy for your own designer, with a note on any string that outgrew its box. Spec sheets and other reference documents that travel with the brochure go through document translation under the same project manager.
Spanish, first and almost always. It's the most spoken non-English language in the United States by a wide margin, and for most consumer-facing brochures a Spanish translation is the single highest-return language you can add. In most cases we recommend US Spanish rather than a European variant.
After Spanish, it depends on your metro. Chinese matters in New York and San Francisco. Houston prints in Vietnamese, Los Angeles in Korean, Miami in Haitian Creole, Chicago in Polish. Healthcare and government work often adds Arabic, Russian and Tagalog to meet language-access requirements. We translate into 326 languages, so the real question is which three or four earn a place in your print budget, and we're happy to talk that through.
Print is unforgiving. A typo on a web page gets fixed in a minute; a typo on 20,000 brochures gets recycled. So after layout, a linguist reads the actual proof in position, not just the copy in a document. That catches the errors a copy review never sees: text cut off inside a box, a caption drifted from its photo, a phone number in the wrong format.
Already have a translation from another vendor? Our proofreading service reviews it independently before you print, which is usually cheaper than reprinting. And if the campaign extends into video, subtitling sits with our media translation team.
The earlier you bring us in, the more layout trouble we can head off.
Upload your brochure through the quote form or call +1 (833) 282 8883. InDesign packages, PDFs and Word files all work. Tell us the audience, the markets you are printing for, and your print date.
We reply within 60 minutes during business hours with a fixed quote that marks which copy gets straight translation and which gets transcreation, plus the turnaround for each language.
Your translated copy comes back for review. We then set it in your layout, or hand clean files to your designer, and a linguist reads the final proof in position before anything goes to press.
Body copy is priced per source word. As a guide, marketing translation in the US market typically runs from around $0.10 to $0.25 per word for common language pairs. Transcreation doesn't price sensibly by the word (a six-word tagline can take longer than a page of product copy), so headlines and slogans are quoted separately, and desktop publishing is usually priced per page. These are market ranges, not a price list; your free quote confirms the exact figure for your files, and it stays fixed.
On timing: a typical 8-page brochure into one language takes about three to five business days including the second-linguist review, plus a day or two for layout and the print proof. Multiple languages run in parallel. Rush delivery is sometimes possible on shorter pieces, subject to capacity. Tell us your print date in the first message and we'll say honestly what fits.
Questions US marketing teams ask before their first multilingual print run.
Send the brochure and your target languages. We'll return a fixed quote within 60 minutes during business hours.
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