Jamie Pillers
Skeptic
Great point... thanks. Does any other company do a better job with b&w?
tunalegs
Pretended Artist
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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Well-known
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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