splotchy color on dust jacket image
Just got my first 11×13 book. The book printing looks great but the photo on the rear of the dust jacket has large splotches of color in the background that aren’t smoothly gradient. The exact same photo occurs in the inside pages of the book, and it looks perfect there (inside, as well as on the cover, it is a full bleed so I don’t think the resolution is at issue.) I realize that its different paper and a different press for the cover, and oddly the front cover image looks great, but this rear one looks bad.
Maybe its a bad choice to use a photo with gradient colors in the background? Does whatever press being used for the cover have issues with that? Hard to explain unless you can see it. These are areas of out-of-focus foliage in the background, instead of smooth transitions in shades of green (as appears in the interior version, and of course in the original) there are big splotches of different greens.
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I, too, have been very dissatisfied with the quality of the printing on the hardcover books I have ordered. And similarly, the same pictures inside look great.
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