Question 1

What is the minimum order?

Accepted Answer

Just 12 calendars, with tiers that fall steeply for branch networks, trade programmes and mailing runs. Multi-branch versions off one template cost far less than they look like they should.

Question 2

How fast will my wall calendars arrive?

Accepted Answer

Your free mockup lands within 24 hours and orders ship in about 2 weeks, express available. But speed is rarely your real problem — see the question about when to order, because the wall is the deadline, not the press.

Question 3

When should we actually order?

Accepted Answer

Artwork through late summer, print early autumn, in the post through October. By mid-December every wall worth having is occupied, and a calendar that lands in January is a recycled calendar. We will tell you when your real deadline was, even in November.

Question 4

Wire-o or saddle-stitched?

Accepted Answer

Wire-o for anything that has to hang hard for a year: the coil spreads the load across the spine and the formed hook is part of the binding. Saddle-stitched for mailing, where a flat profile and sane postage decide the economics — with a reinforced hang point and a capped sheet count, because a fold carries less than a coil.

Question 5

Can people actually write in the grid?

Accepted Answer

On ours, yes, and it is the question nobody else asks. Half the page is a writing surface, so the grid half is specified uncoated or matte-coated for pen and pencil and proofed by writing on it — a biro, a pencil and a marker. Heavy gloss stock flatters a cover photo and refuses ballpoint ink.

Question 6

How big should the date figures be?

Accepted Answer

Sized for the distance they are read from. An office calendar is read at arm's length; a workshop one across four metres of bay. Tell us where it hangs and how far away people stand, and the grid follows — a full-bleed photo with a postage-stamp grid is a poster with dates on it.

Question 7

Will the year’s dates and our own dates be right?

Accepted Answer

Yes — the grid is built for your year, and your own dates go into it: term dates, closures, service intervals, shift patterns, local holidays. Date numbers, weekday letters, month names and the year are the whole point of the object; the only numbers we keep off a calendar are prices.

Question 8

Do you make desk, magnetic or pocket calendars, or posters?

Accepted Answer

No — we make wall calendars, and that focus is the reason the hanger, the grid paper and the legibility get specified properly. For desk, tent, magnetic, fine-art or pocket formats, or for posters, there are specialists and we will happily point you at one.

Custom wall calendars questions, answered.