Digital BW, The Print

Check out lulu.com and MyPublisher. I've only seen output from lulu.com and
it looked very good. It was mixed color and B&W images. The color was pretty
good. The tonality of B&W (brightness and contrast) looked good, but I never
saw the originals to judge.

 

Here is the pertinent info on lulu.com. The books have a flat price for up
to roughly 100 copies. Even if you are printing B&W only I think you may
want to go with the higher-priced color book process since it is printed on
a better paper with a higher resolution printer.  

 

The pricing boggles my mind it is so low. To buy just one book the charge
for the B&W process is $4.53 + $0.02/page. For the recommended higher
quality printer that also prints color the price is $4.53 + $0.15/page. The
100 page color book I saw was $20. Lulu.com will also sell the books for
you, at whatever price you want to set, and send you the profits. 

 

I do not work for lulul.com in any way, but I think self-publishing, at
these prices, is pretty exciting.

 

http://www.lulu.com/about/whatislulu.php

 

The book I bought to check out the quality was about Rangefinder
photography.

 

http://www.lulu.com/content/110604

 

There is one problem. From my limited experience, the printing industry does
not know much about color management. Lulu.com is no different. Read their
online forums for limited color management info.

 

Steve Bye

 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Hahn
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 8:57 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] b&w micro publishing

 

anyone use a service for micro publishing b&w photography in small 
bound editions?  I've seen nice and cheap color output, but no samples 
of b&w.  Advice/recommendations appreciated!








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