Digital BW, The Print

Yea, I think it is a great technology. I went to a gallery opening a few months ago that was a collaboration between a painter, an animation artist, and a poet. They did a blurb book that was on scale as an artifact of the exhibition. It looked really great hard bound and fit for any art library and dirt cheap. If you are going to be using text it is especially effective or small runs. They just ordered copies as they were needed. I made a little Apple book of portraits for a client and I expected it to look like garbage, and it didn't. I was quite impressed. It was all color though. The Blurb interface for making changes and such is a lot more sophisticated but to me for the money, hell, either is well worth the hour or two it takes to put together. It is a very useful thing to promote your work with. From my experience with modern postcard I would send them grayscale files for mono.

j

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Mark Savoia <mark@...> wrote:
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> I have clients that make very small ones (3.5" x 2.6" ones from Apple) to use as calling cards for potential gallery representation or at openings to be sold as small editions of signed "opening mini-ports". They cost $4 to make one.
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> Mark
> http://www.stillrivereditions.com
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> On Dec 10, 2010, at 4:06 PM, mrjimbo wrote:
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> > Brad,
> > Thanks for the info.... I got it. now.. I'll admit I was struggling with different amounts of pages for the same $..  I just down loaded their software (Mac & PC) and will check it out over the weekend...I have been using Quark and Indesign for ever so it'll need to be pretty slick for me to step off a cliff with it.. but I'm open minded about it. Does this stuff do Dynamic publishing (Dynamic pages)  using XML, style sheets etc or are the templates fixed...? 
> > I'm kinda pretty excited about the idea of ordering 1 damn book....OMG... or more likely 10/20 of them.. Still lots to learn.. Kinda funny I feel like I just walked out of the forest.. Just didn't know this was out there.  duh..
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> > jimbo
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