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Where to purchase/create calendars?
I'm working on a calendar shoot for next year and have been looking all over pricing different shops/website for creating calendars and having them printed. Does anyone have any good referrals I can check into? So far, FedEx seems to be the best deal at almost $20 per calendar with purchasing about 25-30 calendars. Seems a bit steep... Any help would be greatly appreciated.. ~ Chris Sep 10 06 12:16 am Link 25-30? whats the point of that? Sep 10 06 12:17 am Link Sep 10 06 12:27 am Link . Sep 10 06 01:20 am Link oldguysrule wrote: Exactly!! I would like to find a place that would print them at around $7-10 per calendar. Sep 10 06 01:38 am Link John Jebbia wrote: Thanks..will contact him tomorrow and see what he can do. Sep 10 06 01:38 am Link Try Lulu. It's independent publishing. My calendars are costing me about $10 per pop. I haven't seen the final product yet but the print ready PDF proof I got when I uploaded all the images was gorgeous. http://www.lulu.com/ Edited to add: They'll also sell them for you there or, if you prefer to buy them in bulk and sell them yourself, you can set it to private only so it can't be purchased through their store. The only drawback is the back cover can't be customized (it has the Lulu logo on it). That isn't an issue for me but it may be for someone else. Sep 10 06 04:21 am Link Thanks Jeanette...Will check it out. When is your calendar supposed to be done? How long does it take to print once they have your design? ~ Chris Sep 10 06 09:24 pm Link Chris, What size? What style? How many months? I've made a lot of calendars before and they are all so different. And prices come down with quantity. You'll find $19.95 calendars come down to under $10 at quantities over 1000. Like you, I usually print up small quantities - less than 100. So it's hard to find good quality AND good prices at the same time. http://www.CafePress.com has full bleed 11x17 wall calendars for $14.95 (not a bad price for one or two at a time) http://www.Shutterfly.com has nice thick card stock 11x17 wall calendars for $19.95 (12 months) and they even let you customize captions for individual days of each month. (Lulu allows this as well.) They are not full bleed, but the image quality is better than CafePress. (Check them out before the end of September... they are having a huge special: Buy one calendar at regular price and the rest are 50% off) Other sites you might try looking into: http://www.digilabs.biz/calendars.shtml http://www.psprint.com http://www.photoworks.com/calendars http://www.lulu.com/products/calendars/index.php Sep 10 06 09:39 pm Link ours are about 2.00 each 4 Color 80lbs stock but you must order when we order ours   http://www.darengray.com Sep 10 06 11:04 pm Link Thanks for the info DigitalPhotoShoots. I am planning on making a 12-month hanging wall calendar, standard size. I was hoping to have them printed for under $15, but so far, LuLu seems to be the only place that will do it. By the way, what is meant by the term "Full Bleed"? D Robert, that's a great price, but I am only looking for small quantities. ~ Chris Sep 11 06 08:32 am Link Check with http://mpix.com they just started doing it and you can set up the calendar on your computer and send it to them to print. I have the same software they use butthey offer it for free. Don't know what thecost is. Sep 11 06 08:40 am Link Mpix was one of the sites I've already looked into. They seem to do some good work, but the price, unless you buy in large quantities, is still fairly high. Thanks though... Sep 11 06 09:10 am Link I was a trade show whore for a signigicant part of my business life for many years. I often met exceptional high quality specialty printers from small companies reaching out from Korea. That would be my own choice for kick ass printing at reasonable rates at this time. Korea makes lots of the very nice labor intensive specialty stuff thats a ridiculous price here. Korea is very cheap, relatively speaking. The world is becoming a small place for sourcing. It's not hard to surf these guys to track them down. I probably have samples and addresses stacked in my heaps of trade show box clutter here. For less than 50 calendars, it's better to buy an Epson photo printer and put something together yourself by hand. Get good quality Epson inks or dyes, and use the Professional Media level printer paper. For the backing, find a local paper distributor and ask for a sample pack of their artistic papers for special projects. These are prepared by paper manufacturers in a very slick, expensive and beautiful way .. to show off their paper stock and creative ideas. Buy a ream or two and get inventive yourself. Less than 50 or 100 units is in the prototype or production sample category anyway, so don't worry so much about unit price per catalog. Just keep your eye on the total project cost. Stan Sep 11 06 10:27 am Link wckdphotos wrote: If you want that price to come down, you're going to have to consider buying in the hundreds if not 1000s. I know someone that researched it and got a price of something like $1.50 each. But, there was a one-time setup fee of something like $800 and minimum order of 3000 copies. Sep 11 06 10:41 am Link wckdphotos wrote: Full bleed means NO MARGINS. Sep 11 06 10:44 am Link Thanks everyone. This is truly a learning experience. I am still in the research phase of this project, so the more info the better. ~ Chris Sep 11 06 01:29 pm Link Calendar Questions give me a call. 1-800-913-0834 Shawn Wether you print it here or not. [email protected] Sep 11 06 06:45 pm Link |
