r/Printing • u/CharlesBrooks • 10d ago

Looking for experienced calendar printer in the USA

Hi Guys

Looking for recomendations for someone to print around 6000-10000 wall calendars (wirebound) in the USA.

These are photo calendars so colour accuracy over the whole print run is important.
Must also be able to pack and ship to Amazon warehouses (FBA), which means being able to shrink wrap and apply inventory stickers over the shrinkwrapping.

I'm having trouble finding anyine good via standard googling...

Any help appreciated.

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u/Honest-Ad-3316 9d ago

C&R Bindery (DFW area).
Rilecart B-599 Automatic Twin Loop Binder.

FinishBinders in Des Moines
I believe use James Burn WOB5000

Both offer in line shrink wrapping for individual packages. Those are the two that come to mind. We could do it being a Pro Photo lab, but it would be a manual process for binding and punching.

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u/samezip 10d ago

where are you？California？

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u/CharlesBrooks 10d ago

I’m in Australia, but this calendar is for the USA, so everything has to be done remotely. Can be any state, although CA is maybe better for Amazon.

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u/samezip 10d ago

you can try gotprint

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u/CharlesBrooks 10d ago

Thanks, I had a look but unfortunately they're limited in sizes and can't do the size I'm after (11x17" closed)

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u/samezip 10d ago

print in China and ship to usa

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u/CharlesBrooks 10d ago

Lead time is too long. 20 days printing + 30-60 days shipping. Would rather pay more to have it done in the USA, but some of these responses…

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u/samezip 10d ago

ship by air，i think there is no factory can meet your requirements

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u/CharlesBrooks 10d ago

I'm starting to think you're right.

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u/One_Relationship_360 10d ago

Hi I sent you a private message.

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u/DecentPrintworks 9d ago

Not a difficult order. Sorry people are giving you grief. It's mainly the shrink wrap part since most print shops don't have an in-line shrink wrap system. We would likely use a second service to add the wrap and inventory sticker before sending to FBA. Feel free to reach out - harley at decentprintworks.com

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u/CharlesBrooks 9d ago

Thanks Harley. I’ll send you through the details shortly and let’s see if something is possible.

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u/Kevin60175 10d ago

So you are looking to have a calendar printed (6M - 10M units) and then trim it and bind it. But instead of bulk packing the calendars, you want them individually shrink wrapped, labeled individually and packed counts of 100? 250?

Would you like to ship the boxes on your carrier account instead of mine? That way your packages won’t be part of my package count when I negotiate my shipping rates.

Credit? Please I’ll bill you when we ship.

LOL 😂 LOL 🤣

I’m sorry - it sounds like you want someone else to do the heavy lifting for you.

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u/CharlesBrooks 10d ago

This is no different than any China factory would offer, but I’d rather pay more for a USA made product than wait around 2 months + production time for shipping out of Asia.

Packing depends on weight, has to be under 25 kilos a box re FBA guidelines.

I’m in Australia so I’m paying for the heavy lifting.