Spiral-bound calendars

Custom calendars are a non-invasive form of advertising that have practical uses to the customer. Besides, it remains within sight at all times for the owner to enjoy – provided that you have prepared a professional and visually pleasing graphic design printed on a high-quality medium. The Chroma online printing shop allows you to make your design an important distinguishing factor of your brand.

Wall calendars are one of the most popular business gifts. No wonder. You can use it to show your creativity, the strength and prestige of your company, enchant your clients and make them want to see your message around them.

A custom calendar may also be an element of long-term brand communication. There are companies who have turned it into a separate advertising project that changes its meaning and content as the preferences of consumers change.

The most famous Pirelli calendar evolved from a set of nude photos hanging in car garages to a component of corporate social responsibility activities. It made it from garages to auctions. Its strength always consisted in perfect photographs, prepared specially for the calendar by the most famous photographers.

Many companies have photographed their employees to show their commitment to employer branding. One of the Polish agencies turned a yearly calendar into a two-year project. Every month it printed illustrations prepared by its in-house graphic designers and then sent them to the media and offered them for sale to secure funds for community purposes.

You can also create designs with celebrities to warm up the image of your brand and concurrently use such custom calendars for charity purposes.

The Chroma.pl online printing shop offers you a number of formats to choose from for your custom calendars:

Choose the desired format.

Now decide if you want your custom calendar to consist of 6 or 12 sheets – whether you want every month on a separate sheet (you then choose the one-sided color print) or if you want the print on both sides, with the calendar to be rotated after six months. The latter option is more cost-effective but does not always meet the aesthetic requirements of the design.

For spiral-bound calendars, you have three paper grammages to choose from: 170 g, 250 g and 300 g. In any case, this is art paper, but you need to pick between matte and gloss. This choice depends on the nature of the design. Picture colors may look more vivid and shiny on glossy paper, but this might not be a good solution for artistic illustrations. They benefit from matte paper, which gives them character and prestige.

Depending on the type of paper, choose the finish for your custom calendar. First read about the finish types on the configurator page to prevent a situation where modifications need to be made after the design is ready and the cost has been estimated because the selected finish is not possible for the desired grammage and type of paper.

Before you make the decision about varnishes or other print enhancement methods, think about the cover. Do you want a back cover too or is the front one enough? Do you want the color on both sides of the cover or only on one? When it comes to art paper, you can choose between matt and gloss with a grammage 250 g or 300 g.

Spiral wire is an indispensable element of the calendar. It can be silver, gold, black or white, along either the long side or the short side, depending on the orientation of your custom calendar.

As you create your own calendar on the configurator page, you can also decide whether you want a cardboard underlay and choose the type of calendar pages to be used. For a wide range of calendar pages for spiral-bound calendars, go to Kalendaria.