2024 Sustainable Calendar

At SunDance, we care about the environment! We strive to be environmental champions through the conservation of resources and the use of sustainable practices. SunDance was the first certified Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP) offset printer in Florida. SGP is the only whole facility sustainability certification program for the graphic communications industry. Since SunDance’s initial certification, SGP has performed a rigorous whole facility audit every other year to help us maintain high sustainability standards.

Featured 2024 Sustainability Challenges

Reduce Challenge:

What items or activities in your life can you reduce to live more sustainably?

Reuse Challenge:

What items in your life can you reuse to live more sustainably?

Repair Challenge:

What items in your life can you repair to live more sustainably?

Recycle Challenge:

What items in your life can you recycle to live more sustainably?

Participate in each challenge and make a positive impact on the environment. Share your ideas using the link below!

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Our Valued Partners in Sustainability: Monadnock Paper Mills & Case Paper

We're honored to join forces with esteemed partners, Monadnock Paper Mills and Case Paper, united in our shared commitment to sustainability. Monadnock Paper Mills exemplifies environmental stewardship through their certified ISO 14001 Environmental Management System, Forest Stewardship Council certification, and carbon-neutral practices. Recognized by leading organizations, they are dedicated to crafting solutions for a sustainable world. Our collaboration with Monadnock amplifies our mutual mission of creating positive change and making a meaningful impact on our community and environment.

Complementing our journey, Case Paper plays a crucial role in our sustainable initiatives. Their dedication to eco-friendly practices and contributions to our 2024 Sustainable Calendar showcase a shared vision for a greener future. Together with both partners, we are not only producing a sustainable calendar but fostering a collective commitment to environmental responsibility and making strides towards a more sustainable world.

2024 Calendar Production

At SunDance, we take pride in producing a calendar that not only keeps you organized but also reflects our dedication to sustainability. From the cover design to the choice of materials, every aspect of our 2024 calendar has been carefully crafted to inspire and promote a greener future. As part of our 2024 Sustainable Green Print (SGP) Initiatives, this calendar embodies our commitment to environmental responsibility.

One of the unique features of our calendar is its focus on sustainable practices throughout the year. Each quarter highlights a different aspect of sustainability: reduce, reuse, repair, and recycle. We wanted to create a calendar that not only promotes sustainable living but also provides practical tips and tricks for individuals to incorporate into their daily lives. By combining our sustainable efforts with informative content, we aim to inspire others to join us in preserving our planet for future generations.

In line with our dedication to sustainability, we made sure that the entire calendar is fully recyclable. We understand the importance of minimizing waste, so we selected materials that can be recycled with ease. The wire-O binding, for instance, uses a black coil made with recyclable metals, ensuring that even the smallest components of our calendar can be repurposed responsibly.

Calendar Cover

The cover of our 2024 calendar is a testament to both aesthetics and sustainability. We wanted to create a visually striking design that grabs attention, while still upholding our commitment to eco-friendly practices. To achieve this, we printed the cover on Monadnock's Envi PC 100 Performance Board C1S 16pt, a high-quality paper known for its environmental attributes. This paper maintains a vibrant and captivating print.

In order to make the cover more visually appealing, we decided to incorporate a die-cut shape that cleverly combines our company logo with the universal recycling symbol. This not only highlights our commitment to being environmentally conscious, but also adds an eye-catching element to the calendar's design.

To ensure a smooth and seamless experience for users as they flip through the pages of the calendar, we opted for a French folded cover. This technique involves folding the paper in a way that creates a neat and tidy edge, resulting in a polished and professional look. It also makes the cover easier to open, as there are no bulky or awkward creases to contend with. Overall, we believe that these design choices have resulted in a calendar that not only looks great, but is also functional and user-friendly.

Calendar Text Pages

Our calendar's text pages are designed to be both functional and visually appealing. To achieve this balance, we selected Monadnock's Astrolite PC 100 Smooth #100 Text to print our inside pages on. This choice not only ensures a crisp and professional feel but also aligns with our commitment to sustainability.

The text pages are thoughtfully laid out to provide everything you need for efficient planning. Each month includes a spacious calendar layout, allowing you to jot down important dates and reminders. Additionally, we have designated sections for weekly planning, providing ample space to organize your daily schedule and stay on track.

Recognizing the importance of goal setting, we have incorporated quarterly challenges, suggestions for sustainable living, and a weekly habit tracker. This encourages users of our calendar to become more conscious of their daily habits and adopt environmentally friendly practices. Lastly, we have included blank areas for additional notes, ensuring that your calendar becomes a personalized tool for both productivity and inspiration.

SunDance is Your Sustainable Printing Partner 

We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to our partners, Monadnock and Case Paper, again, for their support and collaboration in creating this exceptional calendar. Their commitment to sustainability and the quality of their materials have been integral to the success of this project.

As we move forward into 2024, we remain optimistic about the potential for sustainable practices to flourish within our communities. Together, we can make a positive impact on our environment and inspire others to join us in this important journey.

We invite you to share your calendar experience with us. Feel free to post photos of the calendar in use and tag us on social media. We would love to see how the calendar has become a part of your daily life and how you are incorporating sustainable practices into your routine. Thank you for supporting SunDance and our commitment to sustainability. With your continued support, we can create a greener future for all!

Want your own 2024 SunDance Calendar? Contact us to receive a copy!

If you took part in any of our quarterly challenges, we would love to hear from you!
Please let us know what you've done this year to Reduce, Reuse, Repair, and Recycle using the link below. 

Share Your Ideas on Sustainability 

Pet Food

Custom-Printed Pet Food Packaging

Get tails wagging and whiskers twitching with a custom-printed pet food bag that stands out from the crowded store shelves.

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Our four-legged friends deserve the best, and YOU deserve the best pet food packaging.

Formulating healthy, tasty food and treats for your furry customers is just one step in a long journey to the store shelves. But what about getting your pet food and treats off those shelves and into people’s carts?

You need a bold, branded pet food packaging design to do that. And it must come with a safe, durable packaging solution that protects flavor and freshness.

That’s where we come in. SunDance custom printed designs enable your pet food packaging to stand out from the crowded store shelves while maintaining the aroma and taste of the contents inside.

So, whether you need a custom printed package for a dog, cat, bird, fish, reptile, rodent, or other animals, we offer USA-made pet food packaging solutions that’ll meet your needs.

Get in touch with us today to learn more

Our pet food packaging solutions

The pet food packaging design team at SunDance provides a full range of turnkey solutions for your business. We provide everything from A to Z:

• Graphic design
• Full packaging design
• Packaging development
• Branding and marketing

We also offer the following packaging embellishments for memorable tactile, visual effects that will catch your customer’s attention:

• Raised UV coatings
• Foil accents
• Multi-material packaging
• Holograms
• Augmented reality labeling

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Prototyping and Rub Testing for Pet Food Packaging

While you make adorable animals happy with your tasty pet food, we’ll be making you happy with a streamlined production workflow. At SunDance, we offer prototyping for every piece in the production of your pet food packaging, walking your piece through the entire process:

• Mockups
• One-offs
• Proofs

After prototyping, the next step is rub testing. Our rub testing service ensures that your pet food package will continue to look fresh off the production line even after shipping, handling, and storing for extended periods.

The Production Process

Does your brand have standards? Of course, it does. And once your pet food package is ready for production, we manage the entire process from start to finish to guarantee your brand standards.

We handle:

• Sourcing
• Printing
• Finishing

Finishing includes foil stamping, UV coatings, and textures like Soft Touch Laminate. In addition, we also manage the cutting, assembly, and packing process.

Fulfillment and Logistics

We can also handle your distribution through our brand storefront website portal if needed. Yes, pet food packaging can even be ordered through our dedicated web portal, and it has everything you need:

• Budgeting
• Pricing
• Payments

At SunDance, we also cover direct drop shipments.

Direct Shipping Solutions

• Ship directly to your facilities
• Ship ready to use on the production line
• Stage shipments through our in-house warehousing

Whatever you need, let us know, and we’ll customize the workflow to meet your goals.

Branding and Marketing Strategy for Pet Food

One-stop shopping saves time and makes life easier. At SunDance, we’re your full-service partner for all of marketing and promotional needs for your pet food brand:

• Large Format Printing and Installations - wall wraps, floor wraps, ceiling wraps
• Promotional Items - branded office materials, conference giveaways, tradeshow memorabilia
• Marketing Materials - flyers, posters, calendars, journals, notebooks
• Direct Mailing - mailing list generation, intelligent inserting, variable data, USPS Informed Delivery
• Publications - quarterly/annual reports, employee manuals, HR training 
• And So Much More!

Discover the right pet food packaging for your brand.

SUSTAINABLE OPTIONS | QUAD SEAL | WOVEN PP | STAND-UP POUCH | SIDE GUSSET BAG | SHOWPACK

Get the purrfect packaging for your pet food business from SunDance USA.
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Child Resistant

Child-Resistant Zipper Packaging: The Optimal Choice for Avoiding Accidental Ingestion of Harmful Products

Certified Reclosable Packaging Provides an Added Level of Safety for Your Customers

Children are curious by nature, but sometimes their interest can get them into trouble, especially when they ingest something they shouldn’t. Our child-resistant zipper packaging is constructed with high-quality and functional materials and designed to protect small children from opening potentially harmful or hazardous products — giving parents more peace of mind.

As noted by the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC), child-resistant packages are designed or constructed to be significantly difficult for children under five to open or obtain a harmful amount of the contents within a reasonable time but not difficult for normal adults to use properly. They add another level of poison prevention and can be used for numerous product categories, including:

Medications and other pharmaceuticals	Cosmetics and other personal care itemst
Supplements	Household cleaners
Lawn and garden products	Toys and other small objects

This option also is perfect for Cannabis products, which most states require to be in child-resistant packaging.

Check out all of our custom packaging options!

Features and Benefits

By using resealable, child-resistant zippers requiring two-handed dexterity to open, products are vacuum sealed to keep contents fresh and dry for a longer shelf life. Plus, they’re odor-proof to lock in scents, so inquiring young minds won’t be as tempted to try to open them.

At Sundance, our flexible packaging services will complete your entire packaging journey. We’re able to produce and design child-resistant zipper packaging in both common and custom colors, sizes and styles, including:

• Lay Flat Pouches – 2 or 3 side sealed
• Stand Up Pouches – variety of gusset options

Third-Party Certifications

Our high-quality child-resistant zipper packaging has been tested and certified to meet regulations of:

• The U.S. Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA)
• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

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Why Sundance?

With our design and printing expertise, we’ll help you find the best way to showcase your product through custom branded packaging. We offer food-safe packaging for direct and non-direct food contact to ensure your product not only looks appealing but also complies with regulations from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In addition, our digital printing capabilities allow us to add finishes to increase the packaging’s durability or add dimension to the design.

Contact us today to request a quote for your unique packaging needs

Penny Applicator

Levelup Your Direct Mail Marketing with Cost-Effective Affixing

Stand out in a crowded mailbox with our custom Direct Mail Affixing Services. Get a FREE quote and start your next successful mailing campaign.

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Whether you’re dropping some pennies from heaven or unlocking the keys to your customer’s heart, direct mail affixing adds pizazz and intrigue to your direct mailing efforts.

Attach keys, coins, cards, sugar packets — the list is endless and we can customize your direct mail affixing to whatever your campaign needs.

Our Direct Mail Affixing Service boosts open rates up to 10X more than digital and non-affixed mail.

• Stand out from the mailbox and increase your response rates
• Make your customers feel special and valuable
• Remind your clients of events
• Provide customers with items they need
• Attach coupons to drive sales and increase conversion rates

SunDance is your one-stop-shop, no-hassle, reliable printing partner for all your direct mail and printing needs. We use the latest equipment and technology to bring you the lowest cost possible from design, printing, affixing, and mailing.

Our in-house, state-of-the-art printing, and pressure-sealing equipment provides you with:

• The lowest rates and highest quality possible
• Next day turnaround capabilities
• Full turnkey services
• Customized affixing for all your direct-mail printing needs

Get started today. Reach out to us for a FREE quote for our Direct Mail Affixing Services.
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Sundance Managed Solutions

SunDance Solutions Group

SunDance Solutions Group allow you to focus on the big picture. We seamlessly manage your marketing campaigns and allow you the freedom to direct your time and energy where it really matters - building your customer base, strengthening your brand, growing your sales, and developing your customers’ experience.

Our fully managed end-to-end solution coordinates your entire marketing execution process past the creative concept. Once you sign off on your project, we take care of the rest. Your customer receives your key message in whatever form you choose – direct mail, retail point of purchase signage, or digital content on their mobile device.

Our highly experienced account managers become an extension of your marketing team as they coordinate all activities and workflows involved in executing and delivering your marketing campaign on time and within budget.

Your current marketing workflow might look something like this: you spend your days briefing creative agencies, managing production designers in preparation for print or digital content creation, placing orders with printers, confirming supply orders, arranging deliveries and shipping options, data processing or asset management, or making storage and warehouse arrangements. The list of tasks can be exhausting and overwhelming.

SunDance Managed Solutions eliminates these headaches for our customers. Period.

SunDance Managed Solutions allows you to maintain creative control over your marketing concepts, and then steps in to manage the execution and implementation of your plan. You decide what message you wish to convey to your customer, what it will look like, and how it will be delivered. We take care of everything else, and you are able to move on to your next project.

The SunDance model allows everyone to focus on what they’re good at, and play to their strengths. You focus on honing your strategy and company goals, your agency works on sparking creativity and the brand message, and we manage the production and delivery of your finished marketing campaign.

By managing our strengths and eliminating your production headaches, this simplicity increases speed to market, releases resources and reduces cost.

Partners

Convert GSM to US Standards

Gram Conversion Chart

Convert GSM to US Standards. The chart below can be used to convert GSM paper weights to US paper weights.
Note: gsm = grams per square meter or Weights in bold are commonly available.

While metric measurements are generally not used in the United States, they are extremely helpful in trying to
remember which paper is heavier or thicker than another or to make a choice as to which paper to use.

Text/Book Weight	Cover Weight	Metric Weight
50#	28#	75 gsm
60#	33#	90 gsm
70#	39#	105 gsm
80#	44#	120 gsm
100#	55#	148 gsm
110#	60#	163 gsm
119#	65#	176 gsm
	80#	216 gsm
	90#	244 gsm
	100#	271 gsm

Non-Slip Indoor Floor Advertising

Non-Slip Indoor Floor Graphics

Floor graphics are an effective way to reach out to your customers in a unique way. Using an area that you don’t typically think of for advertising can add an unexpected layer of interest. When promoting an event or sale, directing traffic, or simply decorating a space, floor graphics help add to the immersive experience.

SunDance can create customnon-slip floor decals for nearly any flooring surface—including carpet, tile, concrete, wood and more. We offer temporary, reusable options or semi-permanent graphics that can withstand repeated cleanings and heavy foot traffic. No matter what application you need, we can work with you to find a solution that works for you!

Using Indoor Floor Graphics In Your Business

There are a number of venues that may benefitfrom floor graphics—including retail locations, events, conventions, offices, hotels, and more. For events such as conventions and trade shows, these graphics can make an important impact and help drive traffic to your booth or area of choice. We can work together to assess your individual needs and find ways to incorporate non-slip indoor floor graphics in meaningful and effective ways.

Use floor graphics to enhance any number of indoor spaces, such as:

• Tradeshows and Conventions
• Retail Stores
• Sporting Events
• Concerts
• Medical Facilities
• Hotels and Resorts
• Office Buildings

MakingIndoor Floor AdvertisingWork for You

Using non-slip graphics in high foot traffic areas can help create a more user-friendly experience. When shopping, these walk-on graphics serve as a highly customizable way to engage and interact with your customers. Used directionally, floor decals can direct traffic to certain areas of the store, serve as wayfinding signage or promote limited-time offers. There are near endless uses for indoor floor advertising, including:

• Wayfinding — Help direct patrons to desired areas using directional floor graphics
• Brand recognition — Find innovative ways to promote your brand from the ground up!
• Promoting sales and specials — Advertise limited-time offers and sales using eye-catching images.
• Enhancing visual appeal — Create a full-scale experiential interior with visual floor enhancements.
• Managing foot traffic/crowd control — Use non-slip, walk-on images to provide safety information, assist in driving traffic to designated areas or prevent foot traffic in certain locations.

3D Optical Illusion Floor Graphics

If you want to execute an eye-catching trompe l’oeil technique, SunDance can customize non-slip floor graphics with a three-dimensional look. Our unique graphics can be designed to appear as if they are fully integrated into the space around them, or popping right off the ground! This is a great way to grab customers’ attention and get people to take notice of your brand. Work with us to create a custom 3D optical illusion floor graphic that you can incorporate into your next event or promotion.

High-Quality, Durable Materials

Our custom floor graphics are hardy enough to hold up to consistent foot traffic, cleaning, and general everyday wear and tear. It is important for your floor graphics to be solid enough to stay in place during your event or promotion, but also able to be easily removed when needed. SunDance constructs high-quality pieces using OSHA-approved materials. Our combination of durable vinyls, laminates and finishing coatings help create an end-piece that looks great and functions perfectly.

SunDance can produce walk-on decals in nearly any shape, size, color or texture you desire. Our custom walk-on graphics can be created to work with any surface—from tile and laminates to concrete, wood or carpet. No matter what the end-use, we can work with you to find a solution that works best for your needs.

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