How Calendar Cards Are Made | Printing, Cutting & Corner Rounding

See how calendar cards are made from start to finish. In this video, we prepare and print three different calendar designs, check the print quality, cut the full run on a programmed hydraulic paper cutter, and round all four corners on a corner-rounding machine. As usual, production doesn’t go completely according to plan — the cutter needs some attention, we replace the cutting stick, and one cut is accidentally missed in the program before finishing the full batch. The final step gives every card clean, perfectly rounded corners before the finished calendars are sorted by design. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:18 Waking Up the Press 0:35 Cleaning the Press 1:06 Cardstock Ready 2:00 Changing the Paper Size 2:52 Preparing the Layout 3:58 Second Layout 4:20 Printing the Run 5:12 Printing the Second Design 6:03 Printing the Third Design 6:40 Quality Check 7:05 On to Cutting 7:20 Setting Up the Cutting Program 7:30 Cutter Trouble 7:54 Replacing the Cutting Stick 8:20 Cutting the Cards 9:51 Oops — Missed a Cut 11:57 Two Stacks Left 12:40 Cleaning the Corner Rounder 13:16 Choosing the Blade Radius 13:53 Positioning the Cards 14:10 Rounding the Corners 14:47 Perfect Corners 14:54 Rounding the Rest 16:13 Sorting by Design Real machines. Real materials. Real making. Imagine. Produce. Repeat. #HowItsMade #CalendarCards #PrintProduction #PrintShopLife #PaperCutting #PrintFinishing