The 13-sheeter that sits on a procurement manager's desk for twelve months at eye level — wiro-bound on art card with an easel back, in A5 and 8 × 10 in, from 500 pieces.
In short
A corporate table calendar is a 13-sheeter — a cover leaf plus twelve months — wiro-bound on 210–300 GSM art card with an easel back. From Sivakasi it runs ₹28–₹45 per piece at 5,000 units in A5, with a MOQ of 500 pieces and a 12–18 day lead time.
Reviewed 20 September 2026 · art card rates and wiro binding charges re-checked each August
All rows are 4-colour both sides on art card, wiro-bound with a die-cut easel back, ex-factory Sivakasi.
| Format & spec | 500 pcs | 1,000 pcs | 5,000 pcs | 10,000 pcs | 50,000 pcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A5 landscape 13-sheeter210 GSM art card, wiro, easel back | ₹52 – 82 | ₹40 – 62 | ₹25 – 40 | ₹21 – 34 | ₹17 – 28 |
| A5 landscape 13-sheeter300 GSM art card, wiro, matte lamination | ₹58 – 92 | ₹44 – 70 | ₹28 – 45 | ₹24 – 38 | ₹19 – 31 |
| 8 × 10 in 13-sheeter250–300 GSM art card, wiro, easel back | ₹66 – 104 | ₹50 – 79 | ₹32 – 51 | ₹27 – 43 | ₹22 – 35 |
| Tent style 13-sheeter300 GSM card, self-standing folded tent, no easel | ₹62 – 98 | ₹47 – 74 | ₹30 – 48 | ₹25 – 41 | ₹20 – 33 |
| 7-sheeter A5Bi-monthly, 300 GSM card, wiro | ₹38 – 60 | ₹29 – 46 | ₹19 – 30 | ₹16 – 26 | ₹13 – 21 |
| Permanent / perpetualUndated block, 300 GSM card, wiro | ₹44 – 72 | ₹34 – 55 | ₹22 – 36 | ₹18 – 30 | ₹15 – 25 |
| Mini 6 × 8 inSingle leaf with folded stand, 250 GSM art card | ₹14 – 26 | ₹11 – 20 | ₹7 – 13 | ₹6 – 11 | ₹4.50 – 9 |
iPrintZone's Sivakasi price page quotes ₹39 for an A5 210 GSM corporate table calendar — a single number, no quantity stated. Our 210 GSM A5 band is ₹52–₹82 at 500 pieces and ₹25–₹40 at 5,000. If ₹39 is a 5,000-piece rate it is competitive; if it is a 500-piece rate it is very cheap indeed and worth asking what the easel back is made of. That is the whole problem with a price published without a quantity, and it is why every table on this site names one.
The default corporate desk calendar. Cover leaf plus twelve months, double-loop wire at the head, a die-cut card easel that folds out behind. Prints 4-colour both sides, so the reverse of each month is a second branded surface most buyers forget to use.
Folded card that stands on its own with no separate easel. Fewer components, slightly cheaper to assemble, and it ships flatter — which matters if you are dispatching to 38 branches. Less rigid than an easel back on a 300 GSM card.
Two months per leaf, seven leaves including the cover. Roughly 25–30% cheaper than a 13-sheeter and still gives a full year. Right when the calendar is a volume gift rather than a design piece — co-operative banks and distributors buy this format in lakhs.
Undated block — day, date and month on separate flipping strips, or a twelve-leaf block with no year. Useful for a brand that does not want to reprint annually, and for export buyers whose shipping window makes a dated calendar risky.
A wall calendar is a household object; a desk calendar is an office one. That distinction decides who should buy which. If you are a co-operative bank gifting 40,000 account holders, the wall calendar wins — it goes home, it is seen by a family, and it costs a third as much. If you are a manufacturer gifting 800 distributors and 200 key customers, the desk calendar wins, because it sits at eye level on the desk of the person who signs your purchase orders, and because it survives the office move that a wall calendar does not.
The unit economics follow from that. A 12-sheet wall calendar at 15 × 20 in runs ₹18–₹32 at 5,000 pieces; an A5 desk 13-sheeter on 300 GSM card runs ₹28–₹45 at the same quantity. You are paying roughly 40–60% more per piece for a calendar with one-tenth the surface area. What you get for it is the wire binding, the die-cut easel, heavier board on every leaf and a piece that is handled daily rather than glanced at from across a room.
The combination most corporate buyers land on, and the one we quote most often between August and November, is a desk calendar for the named-account list and a wall calendar for the broad list, printed together as one job on the same plates where the artwork allows. Running both in one production window saves a second make-ready and gets you one dispatch, one invoice and one set of packing lists.
Send these and the proof comes back in one round. Send anything else and it comes back in three.
| Item | Requirement | Common mistake |
|---|---|---|
| File format | Print-ready PDF/X, or AI, CDR or layered PSD | JPEG exports at screen resolution, or a PowerPoint deck |
| Resolution | Images at 300 dpi at final placed size | Web images at 72 dpi scaled up — visible as soft edges on the proof |
| Colour | CMYK throughout; Pantone references named in the file where a spot is wanted | RGB files converted at the press, which shifts corporate blues and reds |
| Bleed | Bleed of 3 mm on all four sides of every leaf | No bleed, which forces a white edge or a reduction of the whole design |
| Wire allowance | Clear 14 mm at the head of every leaf — no text or logo inside it | Month grids that run into the punch line and get holes through them |
| Easel back | Supplied as a separate artboard at the die-cut size | Designed as part of the last month leaf |
| Fonts | Outlined or embedded | Live Tamil and Devanagari fonts, which re-flow on a different machine |
| Date grid | Supplied by you and checked by you on the proof | Assuming the press verifies the dates. We proof it; you approve it |
An A5 13-sheeter on 300 GSM art card with wiro binding and a matte-laminated cover runs ₹58–₹92 at 500 pieces, ₹28–₹45 at 5,000 and ₹19–₹31 at 50,000, ex-factory Sivakasi. A 210 GSM version is roughly 10–12% less. Lamination, foil and gift boxing are quoted on top.
Thirteen leaves: one cover and twelve months. It is the standard corporate desk format. A 7-sheeter puts two months on a leaf and costs 25–30% less; a 25-sheeter gives a fortnightly grid and is rare outside export orders. All of them wiro-bind the same way.
210 GSM art card is the working minimum and 300 GSM is the standard for a corporate gift. Below 210 GSM an easel-back calendar folds forward on the desk within a week. Above 300 GSM the wire has to step up a size and the calendar stops flipping cleanly.
500 pieces. Below that the wiro binding setup, the easel die and the make-ready are a large share of the piece price, and a digital press with a comb binder will be cheaper. We will say so. For 100 branded desk calendars, a digital shop is the right answer and we do not want the order.
Yes, in a printed sleeve or a two-piece rigid box, but not sensibly below 2,000 pieces — under that the box tooling costs more than the calendars. Above 2,000, a printed sleeve adds roughly ₹6–₹14 per piece and a rigid two-piece box ₹28–₹70 depending on size and board.
Packed in inners of 20 or 25, then in 5-ply cartons of 100 or 200, with carton marks per destination. We will split a single run across as many delivery addresses as you list, on one GST invoice, with a separate packing list per destination. Transport across India takes 2–7 days.
Either. Supplied print-ready artwork gets a proof back in 1 working day. If you send images and a brand file, our prepress lays out all thirteen leaves and the easel back — allow 3–5 working days and a design charge that is waived on orders above 2,500 pieces.
Product, quantity, size and GSM. A person who has stood at the press replies within 1 working day — WhatsApp or email, in Tamil, English or Hindi.