Today I had the need to print out a calendar for my wife. She needed a blank printout to write a schedule to hang on her wall. My first thought was “I think there is a template in Apple’s iWork Pages that could do this.” Well, that was a poor assumption. No such luck. I went to the iWork community site to find a template but nothing was really useful.
Then it hit me! I have iCal. Right there under the file menu I chose print, fully expecting to just get a bland printout of my current view. That’s not the Apple way though. You get a nice print preview and preference panel that allows some great print options. You can select the number of months to print, along with which calendar events to include. Black and white or color? No problem. Even mini-months are included. This is a wonderful surprise built right into iCal.
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April 6, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Too bad you can’t print a blank calendar though. It won’t let you print calendars with no events on them!
January 20, 2008 at 7:14 am
you can print a blank calendar if you print it before you enter all your events.
or you can remove all the home or work (not both) by removing the tick before you print on that section.
August 28, 2008 at 3:11 pm
I print a family calendar every year for Christmas with different photos for family members and events. That’s the fun part.
Doing each month’s grid, numbering them and adding all of the family’s important dates always proved tedious. Additionally, I usually had an error or two in each calendar.
I’m good with Photoshop, not so good with organization, This tip let’s me stick to the fun part and let my Mac handle the little details.
I can’t believe I didn’t figure this one out myself, but I couldn’t be happier that someone did and had the good sense to post it and share this great tip!!!
November 25, 2008 at 11:39 am
To Doug ….
I’m trying to get a similar project done. how do you add photos?
January 17, 2009 at 3:17 pm
If you want a tiny yearly calendar on approximately one page, in the second Print dialog (the standard one, not the iCal one), you can adjust the layout to print 9 or 16 pages on one sheet of paper. (The ability to do this may depend on your printer driver.)
November 26, 2009 at 11:15 am
Can anyone help – in iCal (3.0.8), when I try to print my monthly View I have times automatically generated attached to them – odd times-not sure where they came from.
So I went into Preferences > Advanced made sure “turn on Time Zone support” was not checked. Then went into > General “show time in month view”. Toggle back and fourth on that one shows the time in view or not – even when not seen it still prints. I never use time except in the posting (ex: doctor 3PM) I don’t need some automatic population system. When I go into command P and turn off TIMED EVENTs they all my daily events disappear (time & event). Any ideas?