Purchasing Resources for Desk Pad Calendars

Pricing and Costs of Desk Pad Calendars

Tweak your budget to make room for the right calendar desk pad
By Lisa Maloney Calendar desk pads are a stylish way of keeping your appointments and deadlines close at hand. As they tend to become a display object on your desk, calendar pads also make a statement, putting the images (or lack thereof) that you choose to surround yourself with on display to your employees and clients.

As with many products sold online, you'll find a wide range of prices for various quantities of desk pad calendars. With such an abundance of products to choose from, you're sure to find a calendar desk pad that suits your individual taste and budget. The general pricing and costs of desk pad calendars fall into the following groups:

1. Refillable flat desk calendars that cost you less in the long run;

2. Customized desk pad calendars that double as advertorial or promotional products, and are usually purchased in bulk quantities;

3. Eco-friendly business desk calendars that make a green statement.

Keep current with refillable desk pad calendars

Refillable desk pad calendars typically cost between $20 and $40, with discounted prices and the least expensive, less durable holders falling as low as $5--if you can find them. Refills typically contain all twelve months of the next year and cost anywhere from $3 to $10, not including shipping.
Try:  iBuyOfficeSupply.com carries a designer collection of refillable desk pad calendars; refills are available through vendors like ReStockIt.com.

Use a personalized desk pad calendar to advertise

Expect to pay anywhere from $3 to $6 per single-color custom imprinted desk calendar, if you order a quantity of 1,000; smaller quantities typically cost more per item, and some printers will give you a discount for larger orders (5,000 units and up). Extra ink colors--if they're offered--typically add 10 to 30% to the cost, per unit.
Try:  Genoa Business Forms and Armu Products provide useful information that can help buy custom desk pad calendars that display your logo, slogan or other advertising material.

Go green with earth-friendly flat desk calendars

Eco-friendly desk pad calendars typically run from about $10 to $30 each, including shipping, though you may occasionally find them on sale for as low as $5. A desk mat calendar with a higher percentage of post consumer content recycled paper usually costs more than one with a lower percentage, and as with other types of calendars for desks, fancy graphics and images will usually raise the cost as well.
Try:  Dolphin Blue explains the importance of purchasing eco-friendly paper products for use in your office. The Green Office sells the eco-friendly line of EcoTONES Monthly Desk Pad Calendars, made with soy-based ink and 30% post-consumer content recycled paper.

• If you're having desk pad calendars custom-printed, be sure to ask about set-up charges that may not have been included in the initial estimate.
• If being eco-friendly is really important to you, consider 100% post-consumer-content calendars even though they usually cost more in the shop; their overall impact and cost to the earth, once you take into account the impact of their production, is actually less than that of conventional flat desk calendars.

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