Dear fellow Scribus users, SCRIBUS 1.5.5 AND LULU.COM
First, I am very happy with the pricing and print quality of the printed documents I have had produced by lulu.com and I am not planning to leave Lulu as my preferred company for my print-on-demand jobs.
I am also a relatively new user to Scribus 1.5.5 but I am delighted to have found it, and I am getting on well with it.
I am very slowly learning through experience that final print quality when produced on paper, is very much governed by the specific PDF settings of the submitting software, and that each individual printing-press can have its own preferred requirements. I have run some printing test from Scribus, but I am finding it hard to settle precisely on the optimum settings in Scribus which also match the perfect printing requirements of Lulu.
For example, should I always save my PDF using Scribus with the option PDF/X-4? (among many other potential options). Many of the options appear to affect the reproduction quality of photographs which, in my case, see always to come out darker when printed on paper than they were when I put them into my PDF using Scribus. Have I got a wrong Scribus setting, perhaps? Too many possible permutations.
So, I write now to our group to ask if anyone else is using Lulu for their print-on-demand? And, if so, could we possibly begin to gather and share the particular set of specific print options which would be ideal for that particular printing company?
In other words, what is the best possible set of PDF options to select in Scribus if you know that Lulu.com will be printing for you.
I hope this post may help others too. Thank you. Louise -- Louise Lloyd Publishing Director louise.ll...@kvoice.co.uk KIDLINGTON VOICE ONLINE Promoting Enterprise in the Local Community https://www.kvoice.co.uk ___ Scribus Mailing List: scribus@lists.scribus.net Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
