Calendar Printers
Which One To Choose?
Looking for calendar printers?
There's heaps of ways to get your calendars printed, ranging from your local printer to online printers. But which one to choose?
Well, you have to do your due diligence, which just means looking around to get the best prices and the best quality!
I recommend at least looking into some of the online calendar printers because they do a great job too.
Often much cheaper than your local guy too. For example...
Pixart.com is an online calendar website that will print your iPhoto books into awesome calendars. These guys do a lot of international orders and protect their goods well during shipping. (Which means your calendar 'should' arrive looking beautiful!)
A calendar photo collage
With 3 photo calendar formats to choose from, you can have your photos added to an actual square on the calendar besides just using the typical full page. (See the example to the left)
The quality is nice too, consisting of heavy paper and spiral ring binding. The website is professional, easy to understand and the step-by-step instructions are...
So easy even a monkey could print one of these calendars!
Snapfish calendar printers
The thing with Pixart is that you'll need to use software (freely supplied) that allows you to upload your photos and do any essential editing on the spot, such as cropping and resizing.
No external software is needed. It's laid out so that you can create a calendar quickly and easily - you even have a place to type in captions.
These Pixart calendars can be created for around about $19.00 or so, depending on what sizes you want.
Choosing A Calendar Printer
Another one of the top quality calendar printers to check out is Vista.com. They'll let you produce a personalized photo desk calendar for about $3.50. They're another online calendar printing company that's definitely worthy of casting your eyes over for potential calendar to print opportunities.
You've got options galore!
There's also Vistaprint.com. Said to receive over 8 million customers a year, these guys have established themselves as one of the big daddys of online calendar printers. To find what you need do this...
Find the 'calendar' section on the website and click on the 'Get Started' button. (Be sure to select the one called 'desk calendar' if you want the $3.49 special because the wall calendar is a little more).
There are heaps of choices for different borders or formats to experiment with, so try to your heart's content.
Once you have a calendar theme sorted, choose the start month for your calendar and upload 13 pictures from your computer (or iMac!) That'll be 1 photo for each month and 1 photo for the calendar cover.
Quick Tip: To make the most of your calendar, select your photos first and do any necessary editing with a photo editor such as Photoshop.
If you are short a picture, or want to use a nice stock photo, Vistaprint has an image library available so you won't get stuck missing a photo anywhere on your calendar.
Alternatively, grab some great stock photography here that'll make your calendar JUMP right off the page!
PrintPlace.com is another excellent source for calendar printing and custom postcard printing too.
Calendar Printer Resources Guide
Another option, if you're interested in printing calendars with full colour photos is Snapfish
For more professional calendar printing try PrintPlace.com (Click through to the 'calendar printing' section of their site). They have a calendar pricing calculator that you can use to gauge how much your calendars to print might cost. This is a very thorough way to get the specifics about custom calendar printing.
If you just want to do a one-off customized calendar, drop in your stunning travel photos of your overseas adventures and print up an impressive 11" x 17" one page wall calendar then try out CafePress
