A friend of mine had a book to accompany an exhibition of his work published through Blurb. Like you the sample book was perfect, so he placed a large order.
It too almost 12 months and multiple reprints for him to resolve the printing QC issues he had. IIRC an update of the RIP in the printing machine resolved the issue, but for the longest time they blamed it on the quality of his scans. DS On 9 February 2010 21:28, Dario Bonazza <dario.bona...@virgilio.it> 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
