Jon wrote:

> My only other option, it would seem, is to use PDF.

Since it appears that you are more interested in how the page prints
then how it looks on screen, this may be your best option. Is there
money in the budget to hire someone who knows how to do that? (hint, hint)

I have not done generated PDFs in color, so your blue banners would wind
up gray, which may not matter if the calendars are going to be printed
on a grayscale laser printer.

If your server supports Perl, and you have a budget to work with, we can
talk.