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Calendars

Wall, desk and daily calendars with Hijri dating, readable grids and a surface you can write on – your name in front of someone every day for a year.

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Wall calendars, desk tents, year planners, daily tear-off pads and pocket cards, in single or dual dating.

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Calendar formats

Every format here is bought for the same reason: it stays in view for twelve months, which no other printed item does. The question is only where you want to be seen, a wall, a desk or a wallet.

Wall calendars

Twelve or thirteen sheets bound at the top with a wire and a hanger. The standard corporate calendar, and the one that puts a new image and your logo in front of a room every month.

Single-sheet calendars

One sheet carrying the whole year, usually A2 or larger. Cheaper than a bound calendar, and it stays useful because the entire year is visible at once rather than one month at a time.

Desk tent calendars

A folded easel that stands on a desk, with a month or a week per page. Read at arm’s length all day, which makes it the highest-value placement of the lot for a brand.

Wire-bound wall calendars

Twelve or thirteen sheets bound at the top with a wire and a punched hanging hole. Pages turn flat against the wall and the hole is cut on the same machine as the trim, so it never tears out.

Desk pad calendars

A large blotter-style pad that sits under a keyboard, with a month per sheet torn off as it passes. Room to write beside the grid, which is why it earns its desk space.

Pocket and timetable cards

Credit-card or folded cards carrying a year grid, a Ramadan timetable or prayer timings. Cheap in the thousands and kept in wallets, prayer books and vehicle dashboards.

Sizes, binding and hanging

The size decides the reading distance, and the binding decides whether it hangs straight after three months.

  • Wall, A3 (297 x 420 mm) – the common corporate wall calendar. Readable across an average office.
  • Wall, 12 x 18 in or A2 (420 x 594 mm) – for shop floors, reception areas and workshops where the calendar is read from a distance.
  • Single-sheet planner, A2 or A1 – the whole year on one sheet for planning walls and site offices.
  • Desk tent, 210 x 100 mm or 150 x 210 mm – the standard easel footprints. The smaller one leaves room on a crowded desk.
  • Desk pad, 420 x 250 mm – the blotter format, sized to sit in front of a keyboard.
  • Date block, 105 x 148 mm – the daily tear-off pad, usually mounted on a printed board.

Binding and hanging: wall calendars are wire-bound at the top with a hanging hole cut on the same machine that trims the sheets, so pages turn flat against the wall and the hole is positioned exactly. Single sheets get a punched and reinforced hole. Desk tents are creased and glued into an easel, with a heavier base board so they do not tip when a page is turned.

Paper stocks and finishes

Three card and paper types cover almost every job here. Plain is untreated, so it takes a pen. Matte has a smooth low-glare surface that holds fine detail and stays readable under strip lighting. Glossy is coated and shiny, and it makes photographs and strong colours look their best, though ink will not dry on it. Weight is the other half of the decision.

Calendars have a split personality: the image side is a photograph and the grid side is a working surface. Finishing them identically is the usual mistake, because a glossy grid is a grid nobody can write an appointment on.

170gsm matte paper

The standard inner sheet for wall calendars. Heavy enough that pages hang flat rather than curling, low glare so the grid stays readable across a room.

300gsm card cover

The top sheet takes the most handling, since every page turn pulls against it. A heavier cover keeps the calendar looking new in December as well as January.

Plain writable grids

If people will write on the calendar, and on a wall calendar they will, the grid side has to be plain or matte. Ink will not dry on a glossy date box.

400gsm base board

The easel and base of a desk calendar. Anything lighter collapses under its own pages within a few months of daily handling.

Light stock for date blocks

Daily tear-off leaves are printed on light paper by design, so a year of pages stays a manageable thickness and each leaf tears away without pulling the block off the wall.

Die-cutting and punched holes

The hanging hole, rounded corners and any shaped format are cut digitally in the same pass as the trim, with no die charge and no torn-out holes.

Designing one that stays on the wall all year

The image is looked at for a few seconds when the page turns. The grid is used every day. Most calendar budgets are spent the other way round.

  • Size the date numerals for the room. On an A3 wall calendar read from three metres, dates need to be around 18 pt or larger. A beautiful calendar nobody can read from their chair gets replaced by a free one from a supplier.
  • Leave writing space in the day boxes. People note appointments, deliveries and collection dates on wall calendars. A box with a date crammed into a corner and a pattern behind it is a box nobody writes in.
  • Put your logo and phone number on every sheet, not just the cover. Eleven months of the year the cover is behind the current page, and a torn-off month should still carry your details.
  • Print the year on every page. Sheets get separated, kept and pinned elsewhere.
  • Add previous and next month mini-grids in a corner. It costs no space worth counting and it is the single most used feature on any calendar.
  • Mark holidays clearly and consistently, in one colour with a key. Half-marked holidays cause more confusion than none at all.
  • Keep branding at the foot. A logo strip along the bottom is accepted on a wall; a full-width advertisement above the grid is what makes a calendar end up in a store room.
  • Choose the week start deliberately. Both Monday-first and Sunday-first grids are in use in Pakistan, and mixing them across a set confuses everyone who reads the calendar.
  • Consider a July to June planner if your organisation works to the Pakistani financial year. A fiscal-year planner is more useful to a finance or procurement team than a January grid, and almost nobody offers one.

Hijri dates, holidays and prayer timings

Dual dating is what most calendars printed here need, and it is also where the accuracy questions sit. Worth understanding before you approve a proof.

  • Hijri dates are confirmed by moon sighting, so any printed Hijri date is a calculated estimate that can move by a day once the month actually begins. This is not a printing limitation, it is how the calendar works, and every printed Hijri calendar in the country carries the same caveat.
  • Say so on the calendar. A short line noting that Hijri dates are based on calculation and subject to moon sighting protects you from the phone calls, and it is standard practice on serious calendars.
  • Ramadan and both Eids are the sensitive dates. If your calendar marks them, mark them as expected dates rather than fixed ones.
  • Prayer timings are city-specific. Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar and Quetta all differ, by enough to matter. Tell us which city the calendar is for, or print a conversion note for other cities.
  • Ramadan timetables with Sehri and Iftar timings are among the most kept pieces of print in the country. Printed as a pocket card or a wall sheet, they stay in kitchens and vehicles for the whole month.
  • Public holidays are announced by the government and some are confirmed late or changed. Provincial holidays differ from federal ones too. Mark the fixed ones with confidence and the movable ones as subject to announcement.
  • You approve the date grid. We build it and you check it on the proof. Dates, holiday marks and timings should be verified by someone in your organisation before printing, because a wrong date is the one calendar error nobody forgives.

Urdu and bilingual calendars

Urdu calendars are ordinary here rather than a special request, particularly date blocks, Ramadan timetables and anything distributed to households and shops.

  • Month and day names in both scripts is the common pattern: English month name with the Urdu beneath, and day columns headed in both.
  • Keep the date numerals in standard numerals. The grid is read at a glance and often at a distance, and standard numerals are what everyone scans fastest regardless of which language they read.
  • A fully Urdu calendar reads right to left, so the week runs the other way across the grid and the layout mirrors. Decide this at the start, because it changes the entire page structure rather than just the text.
  • Send Urdu as outlines or a print-ready PDF with fonts embedded. Nastaliq letters join and reshape, so live text in a font we do not hold will break apart across twelve pages of month names.
  • Working in InPage? Export to PDF and send that rather than the .inp file. If you only have the InPage layout, send it and we will rebuild it as a print file.
  • Give Urdu room in the header band. Nastaliq baselines slope, so a month name set tight against the grid will crowd the first row of dates.

Sindhi and Pashto follow the same rules, and are worth considering where the calendar is distributed outside the major cities.

Why businesses print their calendars with Zarvex

A calendar is on a wall for a year, which means a mistake is on a wall for a year too.

Date grids built and checked

We build the Gregorian and Hijri grid, mark holidays and set the week start you asked for, then put it in front of you to verify on the proof. Dates are checked twice before anything prints.

Grids you can write on

The image side can be glossy and the grid side matte or plain, because a wall calendar gets written on. We split the stock rather than printing everything on the shiniest paper and calling it premium.

Wire binding and hanging holes

Wall calendars are wire-bound here with the hanging hole cut on the same machine as the trim, so pages turn flat against the wall and the hole does not tear out after a month. Desk calendars are creased and glued into an easel.

Per-branch and personalised versions

The same calendar with a different branch address, phone number or territory on each batch, printed in one run rather than as separate jobs. Digital printing means this costs nothing extra. Quotes are in PKR.

How ordering works

01. Pick format and size

Choose a product from the range above, then set the size, binding, number of sheets, dating style and quantity.

02. Send artwork and content

Upload your images and cover, or send your logo, photographs and the details you want on each sheet, plus the city for any prayer timings.

03. Verify the dates

You get a proof with the full date grid, holidays and Hijri dating. Have someone in your organisation check every month before approving; this is the step that matters.

04. Print, bind and deliver

Printed, collated, wire-bound with the hanging hole cut, or creased and glued into easels, then boxed and delivered in Karachi or couriered nationwide.

Getting your artwork press-ready

A calendar is thirteen or more separate artworks that have to behave as one set.

  • Supply each sheet as its own page in order, cover first. Name the files by month so nothing is bound in the wrong sequence.
  • Keep 15 mm clear at the top of every sheet for the wire binding or the hanging hole. Artwork running into that band is punched through.
  • Bleed 3 mm on all edges with a 5 mm safe area, and remember the bottom edge is where your contact strip sits on every page.
  • Photographs at 300 DPI at final size. An A3 wall calendar enlarges an image considerably, and a picture that looked sharp on a phone will not hold up at that size.
  • Colour in CMYK, rich black at C40 M30 Y30 K100 for large dark areas. Skin tones and skies vary most between screen and print, so judge them on the proof.
  • Send the date grid as vector or let us build it. If you supply it, keep rules at 0.25 pt or thicker and date numerals at 18 pt or larger for wall sizes.
  • Tell us the week start, the dating style and the city for prayer timings in writing with the artwork, not in a phone call.
  • Files: print-ready PDF is best. We also accept AI, EPS, CDR from CorelDRAW, packaged INDD and layered PSD built at final size.

No artwork yet? Send your logo, your photographs or a theme you have in mind, and the details for each sheet, and our design team will build the whole set before it goes to proof.

Calendars by trade

Where the calendar hangs decides the size, and who reads it decides the dating.

Corporate gifting

Wall calendars for client offices and desk tents for the people you deal with daily. Restraint on the branding and a readable grid is what decides whether it goes up in January or into a drawer.

Pharmaceutical companies

Calendars distributed to clinics, pharmacies and consulting rooms, where a wall is shared with several other companies. The one that is easiest to read from the patient’s chair is the one that stays.

Mosques and welfare bodies

Date blocks with Hijri dating and prayer timings, and Ramadan timetables as wall sheets or pocket cards. Printed in volume and kept for the whole year.

Schools and academies

Session calendars marking terms, examinations, holidays and events, usually running with the academic year rather than January to December, and given to every family.

Distributors and shops

Wall calendars handed to retailers and customers, carrying the branch address and order number. In shops they hang behind the counter, which is a placement worth more than most advertising.

Banks and finance teams

Single-sheet planners running July to June to match the Pakistani financial year, marked with reporting dates and deadlines. Far more useful to a finance team than a January grid.

Quantities, pricing and planning

Everything here is printed digitally, so there are no printing plates and no setup charge to spread across the run. A short run is priced fairly rather than carrying the cost of preparing a press, a custom shape or fold adds nothing because cutting and creasing are digital too, and a different name, number or code on every piece costs the same as printing one design repeatedly. Quotes are in PKR.

QuantityCost per piece
25 – 100Highest per piece, though still viable
250Noticeably lower
500Best value on most jobs
1,000 and aboveQuoted per job

Calendars are the one product where a leftover has no second life, so the quantity is worth thinking about harder than the price.

  • Order the whole year’s distribution in one run. A calendar is worthless the following January, so there is no case for holding back budget to reprint later. Count your list, add a margin for the people who ask, and print once.
  • Split the format instead of the run. Wall calendars for offices you visit, desk tents for the individuals who matter most, pocket cards in volume for everyone else. It costs less than giving everyone the same expensive piece.
  • Personalise by branch in the same run. Different addresses, phone numbers or territories across batches of one print job costs far less than separate orders and makes each calendar locally useful.
  • Keep the design year-neutral where you can. If your photography and layout do not reference the year beyond the grid, the same artwork can be reused with a new date grid, which cuts the design work on every reprint.

Reorders are simple. Your artwork stays on record, so next year’s edition usually needs a new date grid and new images rather than a rebuild from nothing.

Calendar printing FAQs

Runs start at 25 pieces. Printing, cutting and binding are all done here with no plates and no tooling, so a small run for one office or a handful of key clients is genuinely affordable, which is unusual for calendars.

Yes, dual Gregorian and Hijri dating is standard on most calendars we print. Bear in mind that Hijri dates are confirmed by moon sighting, so printed dates are calculated estimates and can move by a day. We include a short note to that effect on the calendar, which is normal practice and saves you the queries.

Yes. Prayer timings differ by city, so tell us whether the calendar is for Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Quetta or elsewhere. Ramadan Sehri and Iftar timetables can be printed as a panel on the calendar, as a separate wall sheet or as pocket cards.

We build the grid, mark the holidays and set the dating, and you verify it on the proof. Have someone in your organisation check every month against a reliable source before approving, because a wrong date hangs on a wall for a year and it is the one calendar error nobody overlooks.

Only if the grid side is plain or matte. Ink will not dry on a glossy surface. We can print the image side glossy and the grid side matte, which is what most wall calendars need, but tell us at the order stage since it cannot be changed later.

A3 at 297 x 420 mm is our largest and the standard for an office wall read from a few metres. A4 suits a smaller room or a desk hook. Whatever the size, keep date numerals at 18 pt or larger, since a calendar nobody can read from their chair gets replaced by a free one from a supplier.

Wire-bound at the top with a hanging hole punched on the same machine that trims the sheets, so it is positioned exactly and reinforced by the binding rather than being a bare hole in paper. Pages turn flat against the wall.

Yes. Different addresses, phone numbers or territories can be printed across batches within a single run, which costs far less than placing separate orders and makes the calendar locally useful wherever it hangs.

Yes, and for finance, procurement and government-facing teams it is more useful than a January grid. Academic-year calendars running with the school session are built the same way. Tell us the start month and we will build the grid around it.

Yes. Month and day names in both scripts is the common pattern, with date numerals kept standard so the grid scans quickly. A fully Urdu calendar reads right to left, which mirrors the whole grid layout, so decide that at the start. Send Urdu as outlines or a print-ready PDF, and export from InPage to PDF rather than sending the .inp file.

Print-ready PDF is best, with each sheet as its own page in order and named by month. Photographs at 300 DPI at final size, colour in CMYK, 3 mm bleed and 15 mm clear at the top for the binding. We also accept AI, EPS, CDR from CorelDRAW, packaged INDD and layered PSD.

Across most of them, and the list keeps growing. The calendars we print regularly go to corporate gifting, pharmaceutical companies, mosques and welfare bodies, schools and academies, distributors and shops and banks and finance teams.

The trade matters less than what the job has to do. Two businesses in completely different lines often need the same size, stock and finish, and two shops in the same trade often need entirely different ones. If your line of work is not named above, tell us what the calendars have to do and where they will be handled, and we will tell you what suits it.

Yes. Orders are couriered anywhere in Pakistan, including Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Multan, Peshawar, Hyderabad and Quetta, and delivery within Karachi can be arranged directly. Calendars are boxed flat with the hangers protected so nothing arrives bent.

Pick a product from the range above and order on the site, or send your requirement on WhatsApp with the format, size, dating style, city for prayer timings and quantity, along with your logo and images. We will come back with a quote in PKR before anything moves forward.

Ready to print your calendars?

Pick a product from the range above, or send your logo and images on WhatsApp and tell us the format, the dating style and the city. We will come back with size, binding and finishing options and a quote in PKR.

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