Multilingual calendar printing

Most calendar artwork fails in the regional edition, not the English one: the month name is transliterated, the festival line is a machine translation, and the script sits on the wrong baseline. Content Factory sets each language properly and has it read by someone who reads it.

One calendar, or one edition per language

What changes between scripts

Each script has its own metrics. Dropping a translation into an English layout is where regional calendars usually go wrong.

• Line height reset per script rather than reused
• Tamil and Malayalam set at a larger optical size than Latin
• Devanagari and Bengali matras given headroom above the line
• Urdu and Arabic grids mirrored to run right to left
• Month and weekday names translated, not transliterated
• State-specific festival and holiday lists per edition
• Numerals in the form the readership expects

Calendars set in Indian languages

Weekday names, month names, dates and festival lines are typeset in the script itself, never transliterated. Every language is read by someone who reads that language before anything goes to plate.

Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Urdu, Arabic and English are set and proofread in house. Other languages are taken on only when a native proofreader is available for that script, and we say so before you commit.

All formats: calendar design and printing.

Proofread by a reader of that language

Every language edition is read end to end by a native reader before it goes to plate: month names, weekday names, festival lines, holiday lists and any body copy.

• Native reader per language, not a single generalist
• Festival dates checked against a nominated almanac
• State holiday lists checked against the official notification
• Company copy proofread in each language
• Corrections re-proofed before plate

Sizes, paper and finishing

Final specification depends on the format chosen and on what the press can run economically at your quantity.

What a calendar costs

Two separate figures: a one-time design charge, and a per-copy printing rate that moves with quantity.

Design charges

Indicative starting prices per project, before GST. The final figure depends on page count, number of languages and how much artwork has to be created rather than supplied.

Printing rates

Indicative estimates for planning a budget, not confirmed production prices. Rates move with quantity, trim size, paper gsm, number of colours and finishing. Minimum quantities apply, and GST, design and delivery are extra where applicable. Send your specification for a firm quotation.

Quantity bands

From brief to delivered cartons

1. •

   Requirement

   Calendar type, quantity, trim size, languages and what the calendar is for.

2. •

   Design

   Layout, grid, typography, branding and image placement, shown to you as a proof.

3. •

   Proofreading

   Dates, weekdays, festival lines, spellings and translations checked against an authority before anything is printed.

4. •

   Printing

   Digital or offset depending on quantity, then binding and finishing.

5. •

   Delivery

   Finished calendars checked, packed and dispatched across India.

Tell us about the calendar

Two minutes. You will have a price and a production date within one working day.

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