Wall Calendar Printing

Printed wall calendars are perennially popular despite the digital revolution. Beautiful, practical, cost-effective, and easy to distribute, they’re the go-to marketing tool of businesses, non-profits, and independent creatives.

Our high-quality wall calendars combine the flexibility and durability you need in business with the style, high-end design values, and quality materials that set you apart from the crowd to guarantee that you make a powerful, professional impression. As a marketing tool that’s both attractive, popular, and useful, our custom printed wall calendars are your best solution.

At QinPrinting we believe that function and form go together with first-class design and the best materials. That commitment — coupled with 25 years of success in the offset printing industry, an expert team, the latest technology, efficient, cost-effective processing, and unrivalled customer service — sustains our world-class reputation among enterprise sector clients around the globe.

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Custom Wall Calendar Printing Costs

At QinPrinting, we print first class wall calendars to our clients’ demanding specifications daily. But we also understand the importance of fulfilling an order within your budget; especially for start-ups, small to medium-sized businesses, self-publishers, and independent creatives. That’s why we continually review our work processes to make sure we always deliver exceptional quality calendars at prices that will happily surprise you.

So, how much does it cost to print a wall calendar with us? Get an immediate estimate by checking our helpful at-a-glance pricing charts. Unlike most business printing services — which set a minimum offset print order of 500 or even 1,000 units—we offer a minimum offset print run of just 100 units and still with a competitive price tag. But as you’ll see from the chart, the more calendars you order in a single run, the less you pay per unit.

Saddle Stitch Wall Calendar Printing Price Chart

All prices listed in CAD

Quantity	100pcs		500pcs		1000pcs		2000pcs		5000pcs		10000pcs
Size	Unit	Total	Unit	Total	Unit	Total	Unit	Total	Unit	Total	Unit	Total
11″ x 8.5″	$3.84	$384	$1.08	$540	$0.73	$730	$0.57	$1,133	$0.50	$2,490	$0.46	$4,555
12″ x 12″	$5.85	$585	$1.71	$857	$1.16	$1,157	$0.92	$1,833	$0.81	$4,039	$0.75	$7,549

Please note that all prices are EXW our facility and do not include shipping costs.
Cover: 200 gsm / 74 lb coated cover paper with matte lamination
Interior: 128 gsm / 86 lb coated text paper
24pp+4pp
Cover and inner: full colour printing
Plastic bag for each one
1-hole drilled

Wire-O Binding Calendar Printing Price Chart

All prices listed in CAD

Quantity	100pcs		500pcs		1000pcs		2000pcs		5000pcs		10000pcs
Size	Unit	Total	Unit	Total	Unit	Total	Unit	Total	Unit	Total	Unit	Total
11″ x 8.5″	$4.00	$400	$1.46	$728	$1.06	$1,064	$0.90	$1,790	$0.89	$4,432	$0.84	$8,432
11″ x 17″	$5.89	$589	$2.09	$1,047	$1.51	$1,512	$1.24	$2,481	$1.21	$6,048	$1.17	$11,730

Please note that all prices are EXW our facility and do not include shipping costs.
Cover: 200 gsm / 74 lb coated cover paper with matte lamination outside
Interior: 128 gsm / 86 lb coated text paper, full colour printing
24pp+4pp
Cover and inner: full colour printing
Plastic bag for each one
1-hole drilled

For a more detailed quote, try our easy and convenient online Printing Cost Calculator. Just follow the link, pop your specs into the boxes, and get an instant quote! If you have questions, get in touch and one of our expert team members will be delighted to help.

Common Wall Calendar Sizes

The exact dimensions of your calendar depend on its purpose, target market, number of pages, photographic images, and more. In principle, we can make a calendar to any size specification you like. However, our experience shows that it’s often better to stick with standard dimensions for most projects. It makes production simpler, it’s cost-effective, and guarantees a calendar with a proven track record.

The most common sizes for promotional wall calendars are:

8.5” x 11”

12” x 12”

12” x 17”

But you’re not limited to the suggestions above. At QinPrinting, we’re happy to create custom wall calendars in any size or format you wish. Only remember that extensive customization incurs higher costs and slower turnaround times because we need to do a lot more pre-press work and setup. For certain projects, the added investment in customization could be worthwhile. It’s always your decision. But in most cases, it’s less expensive, easier to mail out and otherwise distribute, and just as effective, to opt for standard sizes.

Wall Calendar Paper Options

Most wall calendars feature full-colour photography or art reproductions. So, we recommend printing on gloss or matte art paper to get the best results. Gloss and matte both have ideal surfaces for vibrant colour or black-and-white printing that will make your wall calendar visuals really stand out.

Gloss paper is often best for full-colour photographic calendars, whereas calendars with a simpler appearance may benefit from matte paper.
Matte paper will still give top-notch image reproduction while making text easier to read.

For wall calendars you want your recipients to write on, we suggest an uncoated paper stock. On uncoated stock, you can write, annotate, and make notes easily using pencils, pens, or Sharpies. So, if your clients need to write on the calendar, an uncoated paper is the best choice.

A common solution is to alternate gloss coated art paper with uncoated offset paper to allow high-quality images reproduction on one page and a writeable surface on its twin, usually hanging with the image above and the writeable page—which has the actual day/week/month layout printed on it—hanging below. Because of the complex customization involved in this arrangement, the print quantity should be over 50,000 pieces to remain economical.

Binding Options for Custom Wall Calendars

You can choose from two popular and effective binding options to customize your calendar to your specific needs: saddle stitch and wire-o binding methods. Let’s look at each.

Saddle stitch binding

If your calendar has 24 pages and 4 pages on the cover, saddle stitching is a popular and economical binding method that may suit your needs. Saddle stitching binds the pages and cover together with specially designed staples. This is an ideal option for a wall-hanging calendar and we can combine a drilled hole—that runs evenly through all the pages—making it easy to hang in the office, the workshop, or at home.

Wire-O binding

Wire-O binding uses a technique known as “punch-and-bind”. We punch or drill equally spaced holes along one of the outer edges of the calendar’s pages. We then insert a flexible wire—wound into a double series of circular hoops—through the holes. The wire coil holds the pages together while allowing them to turn independently even through 360° and, of course, lay completely flat. We can laminate the pages to make them tougher and water-resistant. For wall-hanging calendars, we can incorporate a special loop into the coil.

Do you have a feature in mind for your wall calendar that isn’t mentioned here? No problem! Talk to us. If it’s possible, we’ll do it.

Custom Wall Calendar Design and Artwork Tips

Whether you’re preparing your own artwork or commissioning a professional artist or graphic designer, it’s important to understand how to prepare the artwork and text for printing. You’ll need to allow for bleed zones, safety areas, trim lines, and borders, for example, and make sure that the resolution and the colour space are correct.

Export your files as vectors in PDF format for the best results. Our recommended software options for wall calendar designs are Adobe Illustrator or Adobe InDesign. These will also allow you to convert your colour space from RGB to CMYK which you will need to do for offset printing.

If you can’t deliver vectors — say, if you’re exporting bitmaps from Photoshop — then make sure the resolution is at least 300 DPI. With vectors, you needn’t worry about resolution, but all other images must have a high definition to tolerate resizing without becoming fuzzy and “pixilated”.

You’ll need to add a “bleed zone” of 3 mm around all your pages. A bleed is an extended zone at the periphery of your photo, which falls outside the area that your finished page will cover. Once we’ve printed your pages, we’ll cut them to the exact size needed for your chosen calendar format. This “bit extra” gets cut off and makes sure that the finished image fills the page with none of it being lost. You should mark bleed zones as red lines.

Inside your bleed zone, don’t forget to mark the “trim lines”. These will define the final dimensions of the finished page. Make sure that any necessary elements of your images stop at least 10 mm short of the trim line.

For a wire-o bound calendar, leave an added margin of at least 15 mm on the edge that we’ll bind the pages to allow for the holes.

A competent graphic designer should understand the technical details and we’ll always manually check your files before going to press. However, the responsibility for sending “print ready” files is yours. But please don’t worry! We’ll be happy to “hold your hand” through the process, explain what’s needed, and liaise with your designer to make sure everything goes smoothly and you end up with a perfect print for your wall calendar.

To learn more about preparing your art for printing, please check out our Prepress Artwork information page.

Let’s Talk!

If you’re a business, a non-profit, or an independent creative in need of a first-class custom wall calendar at a competitive price point — and only the finest product and personalized customer service will do — we should talk. Get in touch today to chat through your needs or to ask for a no-obligation quote. We can’t wait to help you make your next wall calendar the best!