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Version: Blurb 1
"Poor print quality"
Pros: Way less expensive than most print on demand companies. Prices are for a range of pages ie:20-40, 41-80, 81-120. Offers up to 440 pages, whereas most have a capacity of 100 to 160 pages. Not sure if this diminishes quality or durability though.
Cons: I just made a book with Blurb. I wanted to try a small softcover project to test their quality before I put tons of hours into something. I must say I was soooooooo disappointed! I chose to not make my pages in Photoshop, but do them directly in their program to see the â??virginâ?? quality. My images are from a 10MP DSLR with each photo being about 2-3 MB each, so the input quality was fine. Their output was dark, grainy, oversaturated photos. I was floored. Iâ??ve heard such glowing reviews that I couldnâ??t believe it. I contacted Blurb and they offered to remake the book for me, indicating that they can only keep prices so low by not recalibrating the printer after each book. They figured mine was one of the 3% of books that were toward the end of the run. So, they sent me another book and it was the same. What a disappointment.
I have a full Excel spreadsheet comparing companies if anyone wants.
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You mentioned you have a full Excel spreadsheet comparing companies and I would be very interested in getting it. I am not sure if you just attach it to this site or send it to my e-mail. Let me know what are the rules for this site. I found your information very informative. Thank yoiu.
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I would love to see your spread sheet on digital printing... can you email it to MBCinNYC02@aol.com thanks so much...
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