The first step to do to save some money upon printing business brochures is to do the necessary scouting.  You may then avail help from brochure printing services as this is one of the cheaper ways to advertise and promote a company or product. The sole question you need to ask in determining the number of copies of brochures to print: what do you actually intend the printing the brochure for?   Are you going to mail it to people?  Are you going to hand it out at tradeshows?  Or are you going to use it for face-to-face contact? If your brochure contains product information or price that is going to change next year, then order the amount that will last you the time period - do not order more.  Check out other types of brochures as well for your specific needs such as trifold brochure printing and full color brochure that will suit your specific needs.You may order as many copies as your budget allow.  That is, if your brochure does not contain time-bound information.  Most brochure printing services offer discounts when you ask them to print out numerous copies.  The wisdom behind doing this: the more copies you order, the cheaper the cost of printing.  There is not much difference in the total cost of printing 10,000 copies and printing 12,500 copies.  But if you divide the total cost by the total number of copies, the per piece cost of printing 12,500 copies would be much cheaper.