Blurb Books Arrive – POD – Notes about Lulu.com

May 142011
 

I did a test book of my Central Park photographs with Blurb.com on May 3rd. Books arrived today.
Here’s a recap of what I ordered:

I Left the Blurb Logo on the back to save money since this is a test book. You can have it replaced with your own logo for about $4.

And then ordered three copies on different papers: 1) plain paper (whatever that is) 2) Lustre paper and 3) Pearl Proline

The order with ground shipping came in at $59 with ground shipping.

Central Park Portrait 1 US $12.95 (plain paper)

Central Park Portrait 1 US $14.89 (Lustre)

Central Park Portrait 1 US $19.42 (Proline Pearl)
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Subtotal: US $47.26
Tax: US $4.81
Shipping: US $6.99

Note: I only did 20 pages, but could have done 40 pages for the same price. So that’s very good. I just didn’t want to spend too much time putting it together yet.
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Print on Demand Photo Books 2008

May 142009
 

My Experiences with Print on Demand Photo Books

June 2008 (This is important. I did this comparison in for a few months in 2008. I haven’t repeated these tests. So if anyone has more recent information, feel free to email or comment.)

As far as I know, there are currently 3 printers being used for print on demand Photo books:

Xerox iGen (toner-based); HP Indigo (4 color inks, though it is possible to upgrade this to a 6 color printer) ; and Kodak NexPress (toner).

I don’t believe that any of the books ordered are using NexPress.

There are some things I’ll never know – such as how the quality of the book changes from one order to the next, since as I rule out various POD publishers, I’m not ordering any books from them.
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