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Hi!

Sad to hear about your dad. Is he a photographer?

Honestly – I was happy with the B&W pages I’ve got. Now, they aren’t up to the quality of some fine art photo books I have, but the blurb printing was almost always completely free of tint and the tonal gradations are quite respectable. Maybe those few with a subtlest of magenta tinge would annoy you? I can’t say. But the first thing I thought when seeing these shots in my book was "wow, these look great" – and I used to spend a fair amount of time in a darkroom, and I do care about quality.

 Hope this helps.

Mark 

Hi

I just printed a B&W test book. The point being that each image is in more than once.

I find that the image on the back of the physical pages differs in tint from the image on the front of the same page. I guess that this means they run the pages thru, turn them over and print the back on a second pass and that the two passes differ slightly. Some variation is to be expected of course, but when two variations show at once it is more noticeable.

I think that I would make the images slightly sepia to counteract any cyan tint. While this book is a portfolio and I need to use every page, front and back, for a “real one” I would probably put text, poetry or “blankness” :) on the back of each physical pagel.

Scott

... this morning, probably under different lighting I noticed that there is a very slight tint to the B&W images.

This tinting is very slight, the image on the left hand page has a very subtle shift to green. The other page looks neutral.

However, I don’t think a typical viewer would ever notice this, its too subtle. I have spent a lot of time looking for metamerism effects on my inkjet prints, so I tend to notice this kind of thing even when its very subtle. I would doubt that most people would notice.

I won’t know what the consistency is like until I’ve had a few more copies printed. So far though I’ve shown the book to a few people including some of my architectural clients and they have all paid compliments. The only criticism has been my cover design, and thats partly the fault of the Blurb software being unable to support my custom fonts.