Does anyone have any recommendations of where to get calendars made? My aunt is making 12-month customized calendars with photo collages on every month, as well as everyone's birthdays, anniversaries, etc within the grid. So I'm trying to find a good quality place that I can scan and upload these and get 25 calendars made. I looked at lulu.com but I'm seeing way too many complaints about the calendar print quality in the forums. Any recommendations?

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I emailed this blogger about where she had hers made but haven't heard back yet. I'd sure like to know where to make one like it but would also like to have a resource for fine art style calendars that are more like paper than the slick magazine style.

Roxanne/Pixel2Canvas... got any ideas (remember we talked about it once)?

CafePress.com makes nice calendars. I know that Derek Powazek of www.powazek.com used them for his calendars in the past.

And if it is one where you want the calendar pages customized with dates, etc. -- for many years, we used Kinkos to do them for the family gifts!

Last but not least, another option is Qoop.com -- they have a partnership with Flickr, and I tested their calendar last year and was very pleased with the result!

I have a sample Lulu calendar that I got from them and I actually like it. Not as much as Qoop.com or CafePress.com though.

Hope that helps -- and I am curious where the Pioneer Woman gets her calendars too, because those ROCK!

Just looked up MPIX, digilabs, qoops, zazzle and cafe press and found that 4 out of 5 were the spiral bound type (not folded in 1/2 with a staple keeping them together - that's what I'm looking for) and MPIX was a single 8x10 with one picture on 1/2 and the calendar on the other 1/2.

Curses... where are the pretty ones?

I have a Qoop "poster" calendar, so while it does have a spiral, it is at the top of the page.

CafePress should have the stapled ones... ? I know that Powazek has done calendars for years that are beautiful and stapled; the Pioneer Woman's post was actually what reminded me of them.

UPDATE: GASP! I just went to Cafe Press, and they don't have them anymore! CURSES! I'll send an email or two out in the morning and see if I can find them. I'll let you know what I find out!

See what I mean? "Curses" is RIGHT Not to take over Beth's thread (hey, Beth... so glad you asked this question!) but thank you in advance for doing the research!!!

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Anyone?

With Digilabs you can do 18x12, 11x17, and 8.5x11 with the binding at the top.

Yeah, but now we're on the hunt for NO SPIRAL/COIL BINDING and instead just having a staple in it like the calendars you can buy at Borders/Barnes&Noble.

SAY NO TO SPIRALS, SAY YES TO STAPLES

But why would you want that? They never stay open.

They look cleaner and look less like it was a do-it-yourself at Kinko's (no offense to those who like the spiral coil look).

I'd also like to see them made with a yummy paper that's not slick so I can use a pencil if I want, since most ballpoint pens don't fancy being written perpendicular.

Mine is on my wall in a holder (although it just hangs by the provided hole) and stays open just fine (after I bent the whole thing backwards when I got it to undo the crease).

I would SO like to find a place that makes kick-ass calendars like this. I just made one for a client and was totally not impressed. It really looked like a do-it-yourselfer and I was embarassed.

I have to have a place that can make them one by one and that is the problem. All the cool calendars are for promotions or bulk orders. DANG!

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I make calendars every year for my family and they love it...I create custom collages for each month and upload and print them at www.costco.com for $9.99...you can customize the dates with birthdays, anniversaries and etc.

Here's what I'm thinking... it's a matter of printing seven (six for the calendar and one for the cover and back) pages (mine is about 12x12 closed, so 12 wide x 24 long), front and back, with a printer that can handle thick enough paper (art matte would be lovely) that's not see-through, scoring the middle and stapling them together with a hefty enough stapler to carry the load.

That doesn't seem too complicated, especially for print shops that have that type of equipment.

Grr.

Any update on this???? I really would like to get some calendars made using staples as well. Do you ever hear back from that bloggers calendar?