Calendars & Presentation Folders printing, Kolkata

What this item is

• Wall calendars, desk calendars and date cards produced to an annual cycle with a fixed despatch deadline.
• Presentation folders with die-cut pockets, business card slits and optional spine to hold catalogues, quotations and samples.

Typical applications

• Year-end calendars sent to buyers, agents and suppliers
• Desk calendars carrying the product range month by month
• Folders issued at trade fairs holding price lists and technical sheets
• Sample folders that hold swatch cards and printed specimens

Substrates and stocks available

• Art board 250 to 350 GSM for folders and calendar backs
• Coated art paper 130 to 170 GSM for calendar leaves
• Kraft and textured boards for uncoated folder finishes

Size and format range

Wall calendars from A4 to A2, desk calendars in common landscape formats, folders to hold A4 and foolscap inserts.

Printing process used

• Sheet-fed offset in four-colour process with spot brand colours
• In-house photography and colour scanning for calendar imagery
• Proofing before plate-making so the annual run holds to previous years

Finishing options

• Gloss, matt and soft-touch lamination
• Die-cutting of pockets, slits and hanging holes
• Wiro binding, spiral binding and top-hanger fitting
• Creasing, gluing and flat-pack or made-up despatch

Minimum order quantity and turnaround

Minimum order quantity: to be confirmed. Typical turnaround: to be confirmed. Both are quoted against the specific specification, because they depend on the stock, the number of colours and the finishing. Turnaround is always stated in working days from artwork approval rather than from enquiry.

Artwork requirements and accepted file formats

• Press-ready PDF, version 1.4 or later, with 3 mm bleed on all four sides and crop marks outside the trim.
• Native Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW files accepted, with fonts converted to outlines and linked images embedded.
• Images at 300 dpi at final printed size. Line art and barcode artwork supplied as vector wherever possible.
• Colour built in CMYK. Spot colours called out by Pantone reference in the file and in the purchase order.
• Die line supplied on a separate named layer, in a spot colour set to overprint, not on the artwork layer.