steve g Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Greetings<br>I have been looking around for a while to find a nice site forself-publishing small runs of photo books. After almost getting oneprinted through cafepress.com, it became clear their books weren'treally intended for such things. I have now found lulu.com and amawaiting delivery of my first print. Just thought I would let othersknow, as its nice to put a little book together as a gift as much asit is to make a good print. It is the sort of site you can order asingle book, or handful, dozens, 100s. Also, you can set it up soothers can purchase your book through the site, at no cost/fee to theauthor. Additionally you can do stuff like calendars andmore.<br><br>Whether unfortunate or not, I find most people are farmore willing to pay for a book over a print, and more appreciative ofit as a gift.<br><br>Worth looking into if you are interested. Also,has anyone else had experience with lulu.com or any other company ofthis sort? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donsorsa Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Thanks for the information. Let us know how it looks once you have it in hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve g Posted February 16, 2005 Author Share Posted February 16, 2005 Oh and I found out about this site because I guess rangefinderforum is making a book using them...according to my friend. Could be something of interest here. Either way, I will report back when I get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve g Posted February 23, 2005 Author Share Posted February 23, 2005 OK, I can report that the lulu.com B&W standard service is unacceptable for use as a photobook. I will now have to test their color service to see if the image quality is higher, and then try their ISBN Plus Service to test its image quality.<br><br> The cover paper/image quality was fantastic, it is just the inner paper that was lacking. Not quite glossy enough for proper photobook use.<br><br>I also did a calendar through them which should be in my hands by friday. I will report back on the quality of the calendar ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve g Posted March 7, 2005 Author Share Posted March 7, 2005 The calendar was decent quality, and having the book printed on color paper while more expensive did give reasonable photo quality. Only problem was that B&W images had a color cast. The color cast was uniform, but would have prefered to not have it at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donsorsa Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 Thanks, Stephen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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