Given Marks high praise of the quality of his Blurb published book, my positive response from what I had seen & the fact that others were thinking of using them too, I'm posting this FYI.
A local photographer I know had an exhibition in this years Foto Freo "Photographic Festival". As part of his exibition he had 1 13x11" hardcover sample printed by Blurb on display featuring all the photos that made up the exhibit plus some extra shots (mostly B&W but some colour). Those interested could order a copy of the book, when he received enough orders he would order a run. I was impressed by both the exhibition & the quality of the book, so I ordered one. Fast forward 5 weeks & the first order arrives. No good. All kinds of colour shift anomilies (mostly cyan). After much to-ing & fro-ing Blurb agreed to re print them. Well the reprints were just as bad, if not worse. For those interested he has some samples & his side of the story on the Blurb forum: <http://forums.blurb.com/forums/5/topics/3292#posts-15411> Now I have another book that was made through Blurb (8x10 softcover) & the quality is outstanding. But the images in that book were almost all colour, so maybe it's just a problem with monochrome images. Or maybe it's a common problem that isn't as noticeable in colour photos. I don't know. What I find most surprising was that Blurb said they couldn't see the problem!!! Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
