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Do you have special color calibration device for your monitor, no?

Speaking of which, it IS most important step to make sure that your monitor have accurate color calibration. It should be updated weekly basis. Because color efficiency inside the monitor before our “naked” eyes do not see the change, but actually is slowly changing.

On a final note, having a calibrated device set up and keep it to current on weekly basis, this itself save you lot of time and money, and perhaps some trees.

Answering my own question here - I received my first trial book today, and it contains an oval map that I placed on a black background in Photoshop. The background matches perfectly. Having said that, I think I’ll just do full page JPGs to be on the safe side.

 As for the book quality, I am very impressed. It’s a 10×8, 180 pages, and the printing and binding are excellent. If I’m being veeeerrry picky, I’ve found one pic with a small ink splodge, and the title page has a few white flecks on the black background, but nothing that you wouldn’t expect to see and ignore in a shop-bought book.

I didn’t do any soft proofing, and I’m pleased with the colour reproduction.  I was worried a lot of pics would be too dark, but they’re fine. I can see a few that could do with a bit of a tweak before I print again, but to be honest they looked marginal even on the monitor but I was too lazy to sort them out!