andyjholt
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Well it's the first time I've ordered a wall calendar, so I can't really offer a comparison with other vendors, but I thought I'd post a quick review as I'm very pleased with the calendars I've just received from Photobox.
I ordered 5 A3 wall calendars as a gift for various family members and although I received a 30% discount, they still came to just under £70 for the 5 including postage.
Actually discounts are a big part of Photobox's marketing so I would suggest ordering a few prints to get you started and as long as you don't mind receiving email offers, join their mail list and wait for the special offers to start arriving in your inbox.
Back to the calendars themselves, I ordered on 22nd December and the estimated delivery was January 2nd, so they've done well there as I received them this morning (the 30th December). They were also well packaged in a protective cardboard sleeve.
The online calendar creator was easy to use and offered several layout options. I went for the classic white and used a single landscape image on each month page with some added small images inserted on key dates (a small additional fee of £1.50 for as many of these as you want).
The calendar has a semi opaque plastic cover on the front and back and is ring bound at the top with a central hanger. The quality of the paper is very good, being reassuringly heavyweight and offering a good quality print image with the colours and brightness of the wildlife shots I used being reproduced very well, I mention this as a previous experience with large prints from another vendor produced dark prints with some colours significantly off.
I did send off for Photobox's color chart print previously and used it to tweak the colour balance on my monitor, but I wasn't sure if this would still work for the calendars which it seems to have.
Anyway, that's my experience with my first home made calendar. The product wasn't cheap, even with the discount, and I probably wouldn't buy from photobox now without a discount code, but you get what you pay for and I can't fault the end product.
All the best
Andy
I ordered 5 A3 wall calendars as a gift for various family members and although I received a 30% discount, they still came to just under £70 for the 5 including postage.
Actually discounts are a big part of Photobox's marketing so I would suggest ordering a few prints to get you started and as long as you don't mind receiving email offers, join their mail list and wait for the special offers to start arriving in your inbox.
Back to the calendars themselves, I ordered on 22nd December and the estimated delivery was January 2nd, so they've done well there as I received them this morning (the 30th December). They were also well packaged in a protective cardboard sleeve.
The online calendar creator was easy to use and offered several layout options. I went for the classic white and used a single landscape image on each month page with some added small images inserted on key dates (a small additional fee of £1.50 for as many of these as you want).
The calendar has a semi opaque plastic cover on the front and back and is ring bound at the top with a central hanger. The quality of the paper is very good, being reassuringly heavyweight and offering a good quality print image with the colours and brightness of the wildlife shots I used being reproduced very well, I mention this as a previous experience with large prints from another vendor produced dark prints with some colours significantly off.
I did send off for Photobox's color chart print previously and used it to tweak the colour balance on my monitor, but I wasn't sure if this would still work for the calendars which it seems to have.
Anyway, that's my experience with my first home made calendar. The product wasn't cheap, even with the discount, and I probably wouldn't buy from photobox now without a discount code, but you get what you pay for and I can't fault the end product.
All the best
Andy
