Wall Calendars

Marketing Tips

Calendars are a great gift or merchandise item for customers to remind them of your business or message each month. Advertisements, images, or other helpful information engages customers as the year rolls on. They are a smart way to keep focus on your message and build excitement about products or special events. When the customer turns the page over at the end of each month, they are greeted with something new.

Our standard sizes, listed below, are the most popular in the industry:

• 8.5″ x 11″
• 12″ x 12″

Hole Punching is putting one or more holes through your printed piece. Although we call this “hole punching”, it is actually accomplished with a paper drill. Common applications include Calendars and Hang Tags.

• No Hole
• 1/8″ Hole

Please leave a minimum of 1/4″ from trim to the beginning of the hole. See the image below:

100# Gloss Text, Self Cover

You may be familiar with this type of stock from the covers of many popular magazines like People and Time.

This paper strikes a balance between thickness and foldability, while the glossy finish on both sides gives your text a professional appearance.

100# Gloss Text, 100# Gloss Cover

Text:  You may be familiar with this type of stock from the covers of many popular magazines like People and Time.

This paper strikes a balance between thickness and foldability, while the glossy finish on both sides gives your text a professional appearance.

Cover:  You may be familiar with this type of stock from standard business cards.

Stiffer than 100# Gloss Text, this glossy finish cover stock offers sharp folds and a sturdy product for a very professional result. This stock is coated on both sides.

4/4

Full color on both sides of the sheet. This option can reproduce the range of colors you see in a typical photograph out of the standard 4 printing colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.

4/1

Full color (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black as above) on the front and black on the back.

4/0

Full color (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black as above) on the front and no printing on the back.

AQ 2 Sides

AQ is short for Aqueous Coating. This is a semi-gloss, environmentally friendly, water-based coating applied over the entire front and back of the printed piece. It provides additional gloss and protection, and it can be written on with a ballpoint pen.

File Preparation

In order to ensure your files are print-ready, we recommend that you upload them in PDF format. When you generate a print-ready PDF, your computer will use the settings in Adobe Acrobat Distiller or any other PDF generating programs you may use. Please make sure that these are set properly before generating your PDF file.

We also accept .JPG (JPEG), .EPS and .TIF (TIFF) file types, however PDF is the preferred format.

Check your file to make sure it meets our file creation guidelines. This will help speed up the production of your project and give your printed piece the best results.

1. Use the CMYK colorspace (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK). These are industry standard printing colors. CMYK colors are different than RGB (Red, Green, Blue), which are used to display colors on your screen.
2. Use a minimum resolution of 300 dpi for image files.
3. Specify trim area with crop marks. (Don’t place crop marks inside the work area.)
4. Artwork should have 1/8″ (0.125″) bleed extending past the trim line. This is to prevent minor cutting variations from leaving unintended results at the trim edge.
5. Safe Area is the 1/8″ (0.125″) area inside the trim line. Do not put critical information or images within the Safe Area. This is to prevent minor cutting variations from leaving unintended results at the trim edge.
6. If you want printed borders, they must be placed a minimum of 1/8″ (0.125″) inside the trim line and include bleed. This is to prevent minor cutting variations from leaving unintended results at the trim edge.