Dario --
I use lulu but I haven't used their photo "Wizard" I will say that
both times they printed something that
was messed up they quickly reprinted ... one time it was just a hanging
chad , as it were, paper corner.
I'd say let them reprint and see what happens. But it is scary with all
of these POD things where people
can purchase directly from Blurb or LULU without going through the
author/photographer.
The reason I say let them do them over is they are certainly apt to take
more care this time around. so
at least you'd have 20 good copies... (hopefully!)
Cafepress is especially good about do overs but they don't at this time
do photo books.
Good luck with it, you book looked really lovely on line.
ann
Dario Bonazza wrote:
Hi all,
Someone is aware that I've published one book or three with Blurb.
While the first proof was overall good, the additional copies I've
ordered show two well-visible problems:
- Broad halftone screen on pages, so that you can spot a screen on
midtone parts of pictures and gray background as well.
- White-spot thin parallel vertical lines on the pictures (look like
sort of transport carriage touching not-yet-dried ink), so much
visible on black portions of images, especially on the left (even) pages.
See here:
www.dariobonazza.com/public/QualityIssues.jpg
The very bad news is that about 20 books, from four different orders
(all of them printed in the Netherlands) show such problems to some
extent and NO BOOK is free from such flaws (except the first one,
intended by me as a proof).
Blurb offered to reprint them, but I'm afraid to get more badly
printed books. Has anyone experienced such problems? Is there another,
reliable, book sourcing company you can suggest instead of Blurb?
Cheers,
Dario
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