bruce's Posts

The program details in 2009 are not yet set…but you can be sure that we are working hard to make the program the best value in the business!

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—bw 

Hi Pegleg, image permanence is effected by a lot of things, primarily under how much light and for how long a page is exposed. What I can tell you is that our products hold up very similarly, and in some times exceeding, what you should expect from traditional offset printing of books in your local bookstore.

There is an interesting white paper here that was written by HP that will give you some more technical insight as well.

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—bw

Achushia, I can tell you that we create many 7×7 books everyday with very satisfied customers. To most of our users the differences between our products is minimal but if you are looking for the best possible on-demand quality I do suggest you stay with our standard and large format products.

Also, with our B3 program we do offer 7×7 books printed on the Indigo press. This program is currently in closed beta but you can request information and get on the waiting list here .

Best,
—bw

Sorry, we don’t offer an unbound product.

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—bw

Not at this point Emmi.

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—bw

Order away babigirl11x….we’re very confident on the state of our binding on all of our books.

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—bw

Hi Gerlach. As I mentioned above, we have made some adaptation to our standard routing to give additional assurance that the binding issues will fall within the normal level of defects. Are you continuing to see binding issues with your books even with the new routing?

We are definitely seeing a material decrease in binding issues over the past three weeks since we instituted the changes so if you are still having problems my apologies and we are committed to fulfilling your order to our product standards.

Best,

—bw

Hi Barbara, softcover books are printed on the front cover, back cover and spine, blank on the inside, with no flaps. They do not include dust jackets.

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—bw

Ancela, you are looking at output from three different devices. The book pages are printed on an HP Indigo press, the soft cover cover is printed on an iGen3 press and the hard cover dust jacket is printed on a Xeikon press. The reason for the multiple output devices is due to constraints on paper size with the Indigo, which is our preferred output device.

You can assume that each device is stable within manufacturers guidelines so I suggest using your current output as your “proof” and adjusting from there to get a more pleasing color on your dust jackets.

Best,

—bw

Hey folks..there is a new blog posting that explains really nicely how the Blurb barcode is placed and how to incorporate ISBN numbers and retail barcodes into your Blurb book. There has been a bit of discussion about this topic over the past few months in the Book Printing forum so I hope this helps explain the mysteries of the Blurb barcode.

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—bw

We expect to confirm the fix for this issue this week…sorry for the delay.

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—bw

Hi Antonio. I took at look at your account and saw that your two orders were of different sized books, square and standard. These two products are printed on different presses with different technologies. So there will always be some difference between the two but without seeing your books it’s difficult for me to say if either is actually out of the standard deviation for the on-demand printing process.

Also, there are some basic tips for adjusting images for Blurb books on our blog here. This may help you get closer to your expected output.

Hope this helps!

Best,

—bw

We hear you Kolin! While you won’t see that in the very near future it’s on our longer-term plan for new offerings. Keep watching!

Best,

—bw