Website for making a nice Photobook?

[Jamie Pillers]

I have only used Blurb and been somewhat satisfied. But if you do B&W, you can get very small registration problems that cause a moire pattern in color within your B&W image. B&W books are printed on full color presses, there is a dot screen so it's tricky.

Great point... thanks. Does any other company do a better job with b&w?

 

[tunalegs]

Great point... thanks. Does any other company do a better job with b&w?

I have used http://ka-blam.com/printing/front/ for comics, they offer true b/w printing. However I've found their printing quality can be highly variable from run to run... You will also have to create every page layout yourself and submit PDFs. I don't think you can mix color and black and white pages either since they are printed on different presses. There are a few services which specialize in comics that will print in greyscale rather than CMYK, but I have not had experience with any other than Kablam.

 

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...On the high-end, there are companies like AsukaBooks that specialize in wedding album books, and Edition One in fine art editions...

I have two book projects of which I've printed four dummies each on a digital color press. I cannot use Blurb or a similar service because none of them offer a size that works for what I want, which is 2x3 format with the photos fully bled out to the margins. None of the sizes available would allow this without a margin.

However, looking at the Edition One website, I see that they offer flexible formats, with ¼-inch increments, within certain maximum sizes. The dummies I printed have a page size (HXW) of 6.7x10 inches. I could reformat that in InDesign to 6.5x9.75 inches, which is within the Edition One maximum size for a hardcover book.

But the problem is that Edition One prints a run of a specified number of books. They are not a print-on-demand outfit like Blurb that prints individual books to order and sends them to the individual buyer. So I'm back at square one.

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