Dan, I hate to say it but, you ain't going to find good on-demand printing. Double hit, B/W is very expensive. A friend pays about $3.00 ea. for a one-page brochure advertising his edition of prints. What about an edition of ink-jet prints in a slip-case? I and my friends have explored home-made art book printing quite a lot and not found an easy solution. My Lookaround book is laserjet printed, 8-1/2 x 11 with six, 11 x 17 B/W ink jet fold outs. I put about $5.00 ea. into materials including padded shipping envelope. I have also tipped (glued in) prints into blank, bound books and wire-bound artist sketch books. The latter is the most workable. AZ Build a Lookaround! The Lookaround Book, 2nd ed. NOW SHIPPING http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: Online self publishing > From: "Dan C" <bladman99@xxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat, March 05, 2005 12:11 pm > To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Yes, I do want to print photos, mainly black and white duotone quality. > In my mind I'm looking for something of the quality of the illustrations in > the magazine "Lenswork". Perhaps I'm setting my sights to high, but that > is what I'm looking for. I wish to prepare an "art photo" book; simple > layout, mainly photos but with some text accompanying each photo. > > Ideally these books would be offered for sale from a website, so a low > price isn't necessarily required, as long as the printing and paper quality > is high. On demand printing would be ideal to keep my costs down. > > -dan c. > > At 07:27 AM 05-03-05 -0700, lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > >Dan, > > > >Do you want to print photos? Need to know quantity. The ones I checked > >out a couple years ago print "real" books but not with half tone > >illustrations. I am told there is a photo album printing service for > >Mac X users. I've been printing short-run, comb-bound books using laser > >and inkjet printers. > > > >AZ > >
