Digital BW, The Print

Offline someone also pointed me to focuspublishing and I was about 
the contact them. Great to hear you're so satisfied with their 
quality. And that price is good too. What quantity are you talking 
about?

Joost


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "kalebtreuman" 
<kalebtreuman@...> wrote:
>
> I'm a bit of a lurker, but this thread has recently interested me. 
So I 
> decided to join and participate. Hello everyone!
> 
> Sean, Lenswork magazine is printed at Hemlock in Vancouver, Canada. 
> They're an offset printer that is very, very expensive. They're 
good, 
> but not cost effecient. As a photographer who is also seeking out 
to do 
> a book of my own photography, I've been seeking my own book for the 
> past couple of months. I've received quotes from Hemlock, Double 
> Graphics, Meridian... even Stinehour. I finally decided I was going 
to 
> go with Stinehour, but then they closed last month... 
> 
> I was on my way home from a bookstore two weeks ago and I picked up 
a 
> copy of Focus Magazine (www.focusmag.info) and WOW was I impressed. 
> Great quality, excellent articles, fantastic reproduction. As I was 
> looking through this magazine, I found that they were offering 
> photographers a service to help them streamline the process of 
getting 
> their photography book published. I called them up and it seems 
that 
> this is a brand new publishing company that's really hungry for 
their 
> first book. They quoted me $20/book for a softcover 9 x 12, 96 page 
> book in quadtone and I just received a sample of their work that 
their 
> printer does... AMAZING.
> 
> In addition to printing my book, they're offering me a full year of 
> advertising inside of their magazine, plus they'll market my book 
to 
> distributors and to bookstores.
> 
> Not only are they the least expensive option, but the best quality 
and 
> they offer marketing and advertising as part of the package that's 
> $20/book!
> 
> Anyway.. you guys should check it out. www.focuspublishing.net
>