fabien_.

The offer is good, but I wish to share my mixed feelings with Blurb:

I recently ordered from France a 20x20cm album with their most expensive premium paper, composed with pictures taken with my eos 5d

mkII, processed carefully in lightroom on a deltaE<2 calibred lcd screen. When I first received the album, there were very clear marks of

printing visible with naked eye (horizontal lines with a regular spacing) and the quadrichromy ''pixels'' were very visible, thus generating

chromatic noise, loss of detail and color banding.. Considering the page size was 20x20, all these defects were clearly visible and

annoying.

I contacted Blurb and provided them with a scan of the book I got and they did not hesitate to provide le with a new coopy, free of charge.

When I received the new copy, the visible printing lines had disappeared but the quadrichromy printing pixels were still very visible and

degraded heavily my pictures:

As a conclusion:

* Do not use Blurb for printing quality photo books, unless you print very large formats (in which case details loss, noise and banding will

be much less visible at tje reading distance)

* I however have to admit their customer service was reactive and supportive.

One question remains: is there any photo book printing company out there who does not use quadrichromy printing, but rather standard

inkjet printing with 300dpi at least, and accepts low volume orders at reasonable cost ? (I might be asking for a miracle... ;-)