Hutch20

Who is your favorite company to go to for custom calendars? I am not impressed with Shutterfly that much and could use some suggestions..

joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

I have been happy with Picaboo quality and customer service. They normally have specials, especially around Xmas and New Year. I have never paid full price.

jeanbug35 Loc: Jonesboro AR

I use Walgreen. Had 3 made for Christmas and they did a fantastic job. I use them for all my printing needs.

fotogk Loc: Tuftonboro, NH

This might be a possible solution it is templates to different calendar setups using Lightroom and then you print them out yourself been doing it for the past couple years. Very professional looking. http://www.redphotographic.com/lr-calendar-templates/

drharveys Loc: Holly Springs, NC

Agreed. I have used these LR ready templates for 3 years. Easy to use and look great. And they are free.

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

Ditto :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Vistaprint did a great job for me this year, and on a half-price sale before Christmas--$7.95, if I remember correctly. I'll use them again.

louparker Loc: Scottsdale, AZ

If you want to use calendars in place of Christmas/Holiday cards for family, close friends, good customers, et al., the least expensive option I have found is to buy Groupons for Staples' calendars. The Groupons are available about 10 days before Christmas and this year cost $15.99 each with each Groupon good for 5 calendars -- works out to $3.20 per calendar, and you can buy up to 5 Groupons for a total of 25 calendars. This year I bought 3 Groupons and did 15 calendars for a total cost of just under $48 (and no sales tax). You design the calendar online and then pick up them up at the local Staples store you designate -- they printed them in less than a day after I ordered them. The Groupon offer is still available for one more day and the promotional value expires on Feb. 16th if you still want to do calendars for 2016.

The quality is good, but Staples' calendar software is pretty basic with no options for adding captions -- you have to put those and any other text in the photo itself so the text prints as part of the image, which is a pain for getting text size right -- if you want to edit the text, you have to start over with your original image -- and while they offer several templates for single, 2, 3 or more photos per cover/page, the templates and image window sizes are not modifiable, so you have to crop your images appropriately for the selected template before you upload them so you don't lose parts of the image. However, since this is the 2nd year I have done this, putting together the calendar this year was easier and quicker than last year. The only other caveat that I learned from last year is that Staples needed to bump the images 15% to avoid being printed too dark even though the image files looked perfect on my screen when I uploaded them. Last year they had to redo the 1st set because all the images were too dark, but with the 15% bump, they came out perfect. This year, they (same print technician) started out with a 15% bump and the photos were great. I have attached a couple of PDF screen shots of the cover and Feb. page as samples of the calendar I did for 2016 -- please disregard the fuzziness due to being screen shots.

Bottom line: you can't beat the price if you want to make multiple calendars.

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jcarlosjr Loc: Orange County

How many?

Services and prices will vary whether you want 1, 12 or 100 or more?