Description
Wall calendars are made up of 28 pages. To clarify, there is 12 months, 12 month pictures, and 4 cover and year display pages. Of the 24 pages, 15 of them are images. The pages are stapled together (saddle stitched) like a booklet, and a small hold is drilled on the bottom centre to make it easy to hang the calendar on the wall. Consequently, the layout is like this:
- Front cover image with wall calendar name and year text
- January picture
- January page
- February picture
- February page
- March picture
- March page
- April picture
- April page
- May picture
- May page
- June picture
- June page
- July picture
- July page
- August picture
- August page
- September picture
- September page
- October picture
- October page
- November picture
- November page
- December picture
- December page
- Option picture
- Option page
- Back Cover picture. This page can be blank if you like. It is also a nice place to include a logo if you are branding your wall calendar, a gallery of all of the pics inside the calendar, or a “About us” page.
Option Pages
Pages 26 and 27 are required to complete the wall calendar structure. In other words, the wall calendars only “work” with the correct number of pages. This gives you the opportunity to be creative, if you like. For example, our default content for page 27 is a full year calendar of the year ahead. But you can use pages 26 (top page) and 27 (bottom page when hanging on the wall) for any content you like, depending on the purpose of your wall calendar. That is to say, you can put pictures and bios of your executive or sales team, a family history article, a mission statement for your organization, or any other useful information.
Picture Quality and Size
Wall calendar pictures should be letter size (8.5″ x 11″) with a .25″ bleed. In other words, your pictures should be 8.75″ x 11.25″ with the understanding that the outside edges of the wall calendars will be trimmed off. To avoid having blank white paper showing on the sides, the picture orientation should be landscape. Alternatively, if you want to use portrait images, it can look nice to add some decorative text beside the picture. Finally, to avoid pixelation, your pictures should be high resolution, at least 300 dpi.
