Ken - they were great when I published the first books...
I DO plan to get after them but communicating directly has become
difficult.... they used to have live chat...now they have forums... it's
just too bloody annoying... and otherphotogs on the forum are pissed as
well.
I didn't buy the calendar a friend bought it for me and she is keeping
becuase she likes it (ugh) but mainly because of the
photos themselves, of course...
Cafe press really treats me well, they answer questions on the phone,
for starters... send replacements with no
questions asked when they mess up even a little bit, etc...
I won't take down the three books that are on my lulu site, of course,
but I'd rather not stress more on fighting
the new policies... I just posted to the list for the benefit of others
as a heads up
ann
Ken Waller wrote:
Have you tried conversing with LULU about your issues?
A few people that I know that have issues with online printers have
gotten mostly positive replies fromn them - like a redo, free book etc.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
----- Original Message ----- From: "ann sanfedele" <[email protected]>
Subject: You probably don't want to use Lulu photo book wizard....
sigh....
It seemed like such a good idea... but when I got the hard copy it
was a major disappointment....
What I saw was not what I got... and I went right back to making my
new wall calendar image pages totally
in Photoshop.
(1) I chose a "theme" that gave me, I thought, a solid black
background with a kinda nice "frame" to drop
the imges into... in print, it was an elaborate "nubby" two-tone
background with not enough border around the
photos , too. (2) The calendar grid had almost non-visible
horizontal grid lines making it extra hard for those of us who have
a hard time staying within the boxes do so
(3) the paper quality was mediocre - thinner by a lot than the cafe
press pages (not sure of exact weight)
(4) no place for captioning the photos
(5) It kept telling me I had to fill in a last page and it was
blank... but I didn't
(6) some of the pages were slightly creased... not all of them - so
it wasnt a packing error.
Lulu took away their old book making software so taht I can no longer
change anything already published -
not, as it happens, that I need to other than wanting to add an ISN
number.
The North America Naturally "day book" looked good - and without
checking on lulu first, I made a new one
in word they way I had done before, only making it only for 2010 and
then discovered I couldnt upload it.
(shudda checked first...sigh )
Anyway, I definitely don't recommend Lulu wizard for your self
publishing efforts with photos..
ann
http://annsan.smugmug.com
http://www.cafepress.com/annsanstuff
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