David Savage wrote: > 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.
Fascinating. Thanks for posting that, Dave. When I put together my original book I made a conscious decision *not* to include any B&W stuff, precisely because I knew from experience how difficult they are to get right on a color print setup. I was thinking of possibly including some B&W in my next Blurb book, but I'm definitely nixing that idea now! > What I find most surprising was that Blurb said they couldn't see the > problem!!! I find it more "disturbing" than "surprising", I'm afraid. -- 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.
