Good printing but book is loosing pages after hours of delivery
I received my book today. I opened it and it looked really good. I did all the proofing and profiling right. I was very very disappointed to notice the pages of my book only hours after the delivery were becoming loose!! The pages are now almost falling out of the book. Not good enough, actually not good at all since the point of having a book is to have it all in one piece.
I will wait to see what blurb says. I have hear this is a problem only in Europe, please get some better contractors or offer different book binding methods such as stitching.
I will keep you posted.
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welcome to the club.
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Hey,
thanks for the warm welcoming! Blurb has ordered a new book for me free of charge but this is again time consuming. Also, I have not had any communication from them (I sent them an email about 3 days ago) still a new book has been ordered. Hope this one will be better made.
Can anyone tell me if they do any other kind of binding in Blurb such as stitching??
Thanks
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All of my 7×7 inch hardcover books made in the US were stitched.
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I ordered two books two months ago. Both of them had two (!) reprints That makes 6 books 5 of them printed in Europe: all of them with stains and all of them loosing pages. 1 reprint was done in US: this one was perfect. I have send a mail to customer service two days ago. No reply so far….... Yes, definitely welcome to this club….. Gerlach G. Baas, The Netherlands.
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It would make sense if they brought over someone from the printers in the US to train the printers in Europe. Whatever they do they should do it soon or they will be losing customers. Still no reply from Blurb!
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There was a reply from Blurb in the adjacent post (two were running in parallel on the same topic). You’ll find it here… http://forums.blurb.com/forums/5/topics/2308 ..........Tony
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The problem started last September. That’s almost six months ago. No rteply from Blurb in The Netherlands as well…. Gerlach.
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Thanks Tony!
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nooo! i read only today this topic… my book is arrived yesterday, and i lose central pages at the third look :/
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yes, that problem seems quite common. I am still waiting for the second book blurb is sending for free. I hope this one will be OK. Good luck!
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thank you BTW, i’m full satisfied of the printing results… black background of the pages is well printed, uniform, texts are hightly defined, B/W are perfect, and colours / luminosity on other photos are ok i need only a binding :)
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<font size="1"><font size="1"> The second copy came through. This one is holding well. Good binding and very good printing. Also the colour is consistent with the first copy. I just hope they improve their reliability. </font></font>
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2nd copy arrived!
printed in USA and shipped in europe with UPS, as promised, for free
and all ok with binding, is stronger, also sewed
quality always ok, the same quality print with colours. is identic to my other book, full satisfied, i used a professional monitor with hardware calibration and i don’t have any problem with photos
thank you
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I have to amend what I said above because today I received two 7×7 books with 440 pages each, hard bound, both glued but not stitched. All my other, stitched 7×7 books, had 40 pages or less.
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Hi Looper,
Yes, the same here. You need a calibrated monitor if you want that consistency. I also proof the images before adding them to the book and some sharpening is also a good idea.
Glad you finally got your book!
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i haven’t used proof for my photos, but the monitor is accurate and i simply transformed some images in CMYK to verify the printing result
yes some sharpening is the right way :)
but the best way is apply the unsharp mask on the right size image, so i reduced the full page photo on 3300 pixels size, and the double page photos in 6700 pixels width, and after this i applied the sharpening
no problems also for the B/W photos, perfect
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Hi,
My name is Guenther J. Gehart I live in Los Angeles, California. I had several books printed by Blurb here in the States and all of them were of superb quality. One book was only about 50 pages and one of the books was 120 pages (all hard bound). By the way I prove-read one book on a Sunday night at 9:00PM and received notice the next evening by e-mail that my books were ready to be shipped (from Washington State) and I held three new 120-page books in my hand Wednesday evening – now hat is service.
I also printed some books through Apple and both Blurb and Apple produce books of comparable quality. I hope you have better luck this time around.
Regards,
Guenther
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