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The Digilabs custom printable calendars are calendars that you create
on your Personal Computer with your own images, texts, and events.
After creating this custom 2005 calendar, it then can either be
printed on your home-printer or on our professional digital press,
and can be used as a regular wall 2005 calendar. Click here to see
an example.
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Calendars printed at Digilabs are printed in three different sizes
12" x 18", 11x17 fold at the middle and 9x12 . We bind
these printable calendars and send them to you within 1-3 business
days. We use FedEx for US shipments and International shipments.
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The Custom Printable Calendars can be used as a gift for a loved
one, something to share with family and friends on special events,
as a promotional device for a small business, a team-building instrument
for groups, a memorable present for graduation, or even as a fund
raising tool. Alternatively, it could just serve as your regular
2006 calendar!
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When considering a personal 2005 calendar, you should look for the
following elements:
* Level of customization – can you insert
your own picture or pictures? Can you add your own text messages?
Can you place your personal events on the calendar? Can you select
to use your own holidays set?
* Level of design –can you choose one of many ready 2005
calendars templates? Can you change the design of the 2005 calendar?
Can you add additional design elements to the 2005 calendar on
top of its original design?
* Output quality – how professional does the final output
look? What is the paper quality and weight? What is the printing
quality? Is it an Ink Jet output, a Laser/Copier output, or a
real offset quality?
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The Custom 2005 Calendar is a great gift for parents, children and
friends, or just for personal use. However, they have many uses
outside the home:
As a promotional tool for your business – put yourself on
your customers calendar and your name will be seen everyday, or
just use it as a “Thanks You” gift. Team building –
for the little leaguers, the girls-scouts, the students in the class,
and the co-workers. Preserving Memories – for college graduation,
summer camp, or family-get-togethers.
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Absolutely not. Our My Photo Calendars calendar creator software
comes with many design templates that were professionally pre-made
for your use. You can get a great custom 2006 calendar simply by
selecting one of our design templates and customizing its content
with your own personal information. If you feel creative, you can
always start changing the design template, adding your own design
touch. The level of change and design you choose to take depends
only on your creativity and preference; in any case the result will
be a customized 2005 calendar, a personalized gift of the highest
quality..
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As its name implies, My Photo Calendars creator Software is a calendar
software application. After installing the Calendar software on
your PC, you can work with it like any other software application.
You can save your work so you can return to it later, and you can
use a graphical user interface to create your own personalized 2006
calendars. When done, you can either print it on your home printer
or send it to be printed in our professional printing facility.
The Web Based Calendar creator solution in a web
based system. You do not need to install anything on your PC. All
you need is an active Internet connection. You interact with the
system using a point-and-click web user interface through your web
browser. When done, you send your custom 2006 calendar to print
in our professional printing facility.
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The My Photo Calendars calendar creator software gives you the ultimate
flexibility when creating your own 2005 custom calendar. You can
choose from many pre-designed calendars and customize them to any
degree. From inserting images and events to adding new texts, changing
fonts and colors, saving, and picking your own design, the Calendar
Software really allows the creator of the custom 2005 calendar to
have the freedom you need in creating your own personalized 2005
calendar, thus enjoying the creation of a personalized gift of the
highest quality.
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The user who chooses to use the calendar creator web-based solution
can do so without downloading the calendar software onto his/her
computer. The entire application can be accessed and used from any
computer that can go online making it a fantastic tool for collaborative
efforts where all of the creative team or content is not in one
location. Because of “bandwidth” restrictions, the calendar
creator web based solution is simpler and less intricate.
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In order to create the Custom 2006 Calendar you will need a computer
with an Internet connection. Once you have that, you can chose between
the web-based and download versions of our program, and using your
own personal digital images and dates you will be able to set up
and produce your own professional looking Personal 2006 Calendar.
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You most definitely can. However, if you are using our free trial
calendar software you may only print up to 3 pages. To enable full
printing you must purchase the key to the calendar software. Moreover,
using the digital press available at Digilabs will guarantee a much
more professional and inexpensive solution.
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There are three reasons to use Digilabs printing solutions:
* Hassle free printing and binding process!
* Highest Professional printing quality!
* Lower cost then home printing
(The calculation is based on 13 full page color photos + colored
calendar pages):
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Ink
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~15%
of ink cartridge per calendar |
~$8 |
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Paper
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13
pages of premium glossy thick double sided photo paper
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~$12 |
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Waste
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~25%
repeat prints
(paper
double feeding, ink run out, etc.)
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~$5 |
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Binding
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Professional
calendar binding (at Kinko’s or alike)
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~$4 |
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Total |
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~$25-30 |
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Digilabs
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our
pricing for 1-15 calendars (18x12) |
$24.95 |
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Time |
Hassling
with the printer through a lengthy printing process, double
feeding, ink run out, pages re-ordering for double sided
printing, binding, and more |
1-2
hours |
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We use the hp Indigo press to print your customized 2005 calendar.
The HP Indigo uses digital offset press technology that delivers
enhanced image quality.
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In most cases, your calendar will be printed within 2-4 business
days. In some cases, especially as we get closer to the holidays,
it might take an extra day or two. Your calendar will be shipped
out the same day it was printed. Actual shipping time will vary
based on your selected shipping method.
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The hp Indigo liquid ElectroInk technology produces deep, rich,
offset-quality printing that is uniform and vibrant. By using breakthrough
image tracking technology, it delivers uncompromising image quality.
The hp indigo offers an 800 dpi output resolution. Learn more about
our printing solutions.
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Endless opportunities are now available to the patrons of Digilabs
thanks to the groundbreaking technology offered by the digital printing
equipment of the hp Indigo press. Through our services, customers
are not only able to exercise innovative applications which were
previously unavailable with conventional presses (such as professional
customized printing in short runs), but can also do so relatively
inexpensively.
The high-tech printing technology used by Digilabs
offers our clientele affordable short-run printing while guaranteeing
high quality performance and customize print. Through the usage
of advanced digital solutions, Digilabs is able to meet the needs
of its clients by allowing complete personalization of individual
print jobs--making each piece unique and custom-made, yet professional
and economical.
Since costs of traditional methods of printing hardly depended on
job size, but rather on standard setup expenses (time, film/plate
creation etc.) producing a low numbered short-run was previously
very pricey and impracticable for an individual or a company. However,
as a result of its flexible and efficient characteristics, this
digital press now allows our customers to produce as few as one
print, in a very high quality and for a reasonable price.
The technological advantages provided to our customers
and us by the digital press could be explained by the usage of liquid
ink, the manner in which the ink is applied to the paper, and by
the high dpi (dots per inch--the usual measure of printed image
quality on paper) capabilities of the presses. Using liquid ink
for printed images is very helpful to the creation of images of
high resolution and brilliant color. The unique electronic printing
process used by Indigo is a combination of high performance digital
imaging technology and liquid ink offset printing quality, promising
to present beautiful and professional results every time. While
the Indigo press first uses a “plate” to carry the image,
it then employs an offset printing technique to get that representation
from the plate and onto the paper. This method begins when ink is
smeared on the plate and the image is transferred onto a rubber
“blanket,” which will then carry the image onto the
paper as the final product. In conventional presses, each individual
plate is only able to hold a single image for the duration of an
entire run.
Therefore, in order to generate a new piece, an
additional plate must also be created. However, in digital presses,
such as the Indigo press, the plate can be changed during the actual
run, so that custom and personalized printing become possible. The
superior and premium printing choices that Digilabs is able to provide
to its customers is related to the high dpi and press technology,
which the Indigo press uses. Learn more about our printing solutions.
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When sending a job to be printed, whether at home or at a professional
printer, it is important to remember that the quality of the printed
image will always be only as good as the quality of the images used
in the creation process.
Generally, a computer monitor will present an
image using a screen resolution of approximately 72-96 dots-per-inch
(dpi). That is, any inch on the screen is divided into 72 dots vertically
and 72 dots horizontally, and those dots, also known as Pixels,
generate the presentation for this inch on the screen.
Printing on paper, however, requires a higher
dots-per-inch resolution to achieve photo quality output. The quality
will depend on the image resolution as well as an array of other
factors, such as the color range that can be applied to a dot by
the printer, the printer technology (Inkjet, Toner, Ink), and the
paper quality. Typically the DPI of a printable image should be
at least 150 (DPI), 200 DPI will be better, and a 300 DPI image
will insure the high quality of the printed output.
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The Image size in measured in pixels. The quality of the printed
output is measured in dots-per-inch. For simplicity, lets treat
a pixel as a dot. In other words, the quality of the printed output
will be measured by the number of pixels/dots we can print per inch.
The more dots the printer can access the higher the quality of the
picture can be. So if an image is 600 pixels per side, and it is
printed at 600 dots-per-inch (DPI), it will print out as an image
1 inch wide and high. If we would like to enlarge that image to
be 2 inches the DPI will drop to 300, and if the image will be enlarged
to 6 inch the DPI will drop to 100.
If you divide the number of pixels of an image
by the DPI you seek the printable image to be (typically 150-300)
the result will be the appropriate size of that image.
For example: If image size is 1,280 x 1,024 pixels and you want
to the printed output to be of 200 DPI quality, divide the pixels
(1,280 x 1,024) by the DPI you seek (200). That will result in a
6.40 x 5.12 inch image with 200 DPI quality on the printed output,
or 4.27 x 3.41 inch 300 DPI image (1,280:300=4.27 inch. 1,024:300=3.41
inch)
To calculate the image print DPI, you divide
the image size in pixels with the image size in inch (as will appear
on paper) .
For example, a 640 x 480 pixel image displayed as an 8 7/8 x 6 2/3
inch image has a 72 dpi resolution. When printed at this size, this
image will suffer from low quality, as it has a 72 dots-per-inch
resolution. If this image would be used to print a 2.1 x 1.6 inch
image (representing a 300 dots-per-inch resolution), its quality
will be excellent.
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You can get photo quality results when using as few as 150-200 dots-per-inch
(dpi) images. The basic rule to keep in mind is that in order to
maintain image quality, the number of pixels in the image bitmap
file must increase as the size of the printed picture increases.
Otherwise, individual pixels will become larger in the print and
the picture will get a jagged and grainy texture.
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Below are a few rules of thumb to use when using images for print:
* Start with the largest images you can get
out of your digital camera or scanner.
* The original image as viewed on screen in 72 dpi should be 2
to 4 times bigger than its size on paper.
* Try to maintain a resolution of not less than 150 dots-per-inch
for the image. (In our program you can tell the dpi of your image
by right-clicking a picture and going to ‘picture setting’).
* Don’t overshoot! Most people will not be able to see the
difference without searching for it.
The following table will sum the common image
sizes and their recommended printed size:
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Digital Camera Image Size |
Good Quality (150 DPI)
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Better
(200 DPI) |
Best Quality (300 DPI)
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(Pixels) |
(Inch) |
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Width |
Height |
Width |
Height |
Width |
Height |
Width |
Height |
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1,280
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1,024 |
8.53 |
6.83 |
6.40 |
5.12 |
4.27 |
3.41 |
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1,600 |
1,200 |
10.67 |
8.00 |
8.00 |
6.00 |
5.33 |
4.00 |
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2,260
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1,440 |
15.07 |
9.60 |
11.30 |
7.20 |
7.53 |
4.80 |
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2,560
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1,920 |
17.07 |
12.80 |
12.80 |
9.60 |
8.53 |
6.40 |
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3,072
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2,048
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20.48 |
13.65 |
15.36 |
10.24 |
10.24 |
6.83 |
For printing, more dpi is better. However, too much information
will require more memory and time to print, as well as a larger
output file that will take much longer to upload. On the other hand,
in most cases, the difference in quality between a 200 dpi image
and 400 dpi image will not be noticeable to the human eye.
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Images tend to be quite large in size. For example, a 4”x6”
image in a 300 DPI and 24 bit color will be more than 6 MB in size.
This requires large storage space and is very slow to transmit on
the network.
JPEG is a compression technique designed for compressing
images of natural, real-world scenes. It works well on photographs,
naturalistic artwork, and similar material. JPEG is "lossy,"
meaning that the decompressed image is not quite the same as the
one with which you started. JPEG is designed to exploit known limitations
of the human eye, notably the fact that small color changes are
perceived less accurately than small changes in brightness. Most
changes in the image are invisible to the eye.
JPEG can achieve a 20:1 compression ratio without any visible loss,
and up to 50:1 ratio with small to moderate defects. That is, the
above 6 MB image can be compressed to a 300 KB image with no visible
change to the image.
Keep in mind that in most cases, you can achieve
great compression ratio without any visible differences to the image.
In summation, if you are using reasonable quality
images and reasonable compression, your images are expected to be
of high quality when printed. If the images you start with are either
of low quality or too compressed, the final printed results will
be as good (or bad) as the images you used. However, keep in mind
that too much is not always better. A 4”x6” 300 DPI
non-compressed image and a 200 DPI JPEG compressed images will probably
produce similar results. However, transferring it to print over
the network using a 56KBps modem will take approximately 18 minutes
with a high DPI image that is noncompressed on oppose to 25 seconds
of a moderate DPI image that is slightly compressed.
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Yes we have launch a MAC version of My Photo
Calendars Software and Cards Software download
here.
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When downloading the software you will be automatically downloading
a PDF user guide, this guide includes all information and instructions
related to the software.
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Absolutely. The software supports different types of paper US and
European standards the software also offers a large range of holiday
overlays from 20+ different counties and religions, (American, Canadian,
British, Brazil, German, Mexican, Spain, Australian, French, Denmark,
Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New-Zealand, Russia, South-Africa,
Spain, Switzerland, china, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and
more) also you will be able to easily change the language of the
days and months. With the ability to download it you can start creating
your calendar today!
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To download the calendar software, you will need: Windows 98 or
higher. 30 MB of free disk space, 128 MB or RAM; 256 MB RAM recommended.
Internet connection
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Yes. You can download the software now or order the software on
a CD and we will ship it to you in three to five days. Check out
our software.
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Yes, the software is fully operational; the only limitation is that
you can only print sample pages and not the entire calendar before
buying the software.
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Our software is not a time management product neither will it work
with your Palm OS handheld organizer. Our software knows to do only
one thing: help you easily create and print, at home, or in the
office, your fully customized photo calendar, for the years 2005,
2006, 2007, and for this task it is the best.
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