I've been doing alot of book printing in b/w using Piezography K7 inksets, either a selenium or a carbon sepia, or K4 neutral. All 3 of these inksets have zero metamerism or color cast since they are pure b/w. Also the resolution of b/w inkjet is much higher than digital offset press printers, but you're probably already familiar with this. One style of photo book I produce mimics Apple iBook virtually verbatim, you can use the book creator in iPhoto and save as a pdf if like that and I'll be able to paste that into lmy printing templates. I prefer to design from scratch though. I do a few other styles of binding but the iBook style is the most polished. Although I'm priced slightly more than the iBook I think you'll find the b/w reproduction far superior. If you're interested I can send , off line, pictures of samples and softproofing profiles to view inkset set tones, etc.
Cheers,
Mark
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On Sep 7, 2013, at 5:27 PM, john wrote:
Does anyone know a POD online company that can provide really neutral black and white photographic reproduction?
I have yet to see any of these outfits like Blurb that even come close to providing acceptable reproductions without out color casts or extreme metameric failure. Even the "sepia" hued books I've seen look horrible.
But maybe someone is specializing in pod bw photo books. If not I wonder why.
John