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03/29/2012 01:26:42 PM · #1 |
| Hi everyone, I am new on this forum and would like to great all of you. I got a question, does anyone know how to fix graphi software issue (director player error?) Thanks |
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06/09/2009 05:50:50 PM · #2 |
Hi,
Know this thread is a little old at this point but thought I'd see if there is any further interest.
The owner of our giclee studio worked selling the presses that print photobooks for four years. We have created a new product that is a whole different level of quality than the press books referred to in this thread but at a price close to that of press printed books.
We've also come out with a Photo Giclee print that is a level in quality beyond AgX but offering them at the same price as AgX prints from the photo labs. We are also experts in color science and will help our customers to also be experts.
Our new website doesn't launch till June 15th but you can contact us and we are happy to send you all the info.
Regards,
Artful Color
www.artfulcolor.com
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05/14/2009 01:24:26 PM · #3 |
| Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt! They also ship to the US. |
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05/12/2009 04:07:52 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by B-Enno:
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
Why are pulling up a thread from 2+ years ago?
Why does your link not work? |
The information in this forum is online indefinitely and therefore might be helpful for people with similar questions that browse old threads.
I might have gotten the link wrong, its: //www.sweetmemoryalbums.com/albums/fc/index
As a reminder, the link refers to a website that offers printing services of flush mount photo albums to retail customers. |
It's just your post seems a lot like spam. You are new here, found a long dead thread, sign up for a free account, make one posting with a link to a website selling something.
When questioned, you again state that it's (the site) is selling stuff...be that a warning or an endorsement I don't know. It's just that it hit my radar in a bad way I suppose. I guess if you were spamming us you'd have gotten the link right :P
Seems to be a german company, do they ship to the US or are europe only?
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05/12/2009 02:12:39 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
Why are pulling up a thread from 2+ years ago?
Why does your link not work? |
The information in this forum is online indefinitely and therefore might be helpful for people with similar questions that browse old threads.
I might have gotten the link wrong, its: //www.sweetmemoryalbums.com/albums/fc/index
As a reminder, the link refers to a website that offers printing services of flush mount photo albums to retail customers.
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05/11/2009 03:33:27 PM · #6 |
Why are pulling up a thread from 2+ years ago?
Why does your link not work?
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10/16/2007 09:41:24 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by dwterry:
I had a wedding customer come to me yesterday asking if I would put together one of those "photo books" for them where the pictures are printed right on the page.
So I'm wondering, what's the best solution out there?
I, of course, want a good quality solution. But it is going to have to be affordable (to my customer) and priced such that I can make a profit too.
Any recommendations out there? |
Do you mean a flush-mount album or a coffee table book? What you are describing is a style more than a type of book.
Flush mount (often called digital flush mount) is like artleather's iMount deluxe or cache, H&H Color Labs' Black Tie albums (not their coffee table books) or GP ALbums Ultra, TAP superior mount - regular photos mounted to a cardboard page.
Coffeetable are paper pages, usually with a hard cover. Asuka is good, but apollo photo's Illuma books are excellent as are H&H's coffee table books.
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10/16/2007 04:47:14 AM · #8 |
I used them and I was not impressed at all with the print quality. Read the description of how they print their books. To me it sounds like the same quality my 100 dollar Epson all in one does....
From the Blurb site:
Commercial-quality, 4-color printing
My Epson uses 4 color printint too. And the blurb book looked like it came from an Epson all in one. The dust cover was cool, but beyond that.....big thumbs down!
Originally posted by KHolt:
Has any one used Blurb.com. It looks like great value and you can have a vast number of pages
161-200 for $47.95
301-440 for $79.95
Even with shipping to the UK this still appears to be an attractive offer. |
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10/16/2007 04:14:54 AM · #9 |
I have a queensbury price list for UK, and they seem pretty expensive, although their quality is pretty nice too.
Their started kit is £250. |
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10/15/2007 04:53:04 PM · #10 |
I'm new to this forum so firstly hello
I am a wedding and portrsit photographer and have been looking at getting some proce lists together for these style of books, I have used some of the cheaper companies and the results are nice but nothing compared to Graphistudio or queensbury.
I have applied for pice lists for the above 2 companies but as yet have heard nothing back, could anyone give me an example price list for Graphi studio, Queensbury or sim2000 imaging?
Thanks
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10/24/2006 11:44:56 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by rex:
It seems Asuka requires you to own your own business so for us hobbyist that is not an option. |
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10/24/2006 11:41:09 AM · #12 |
It seems Asuka requires you to own your own business so for us hobbyist that is not an option.
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10/24/2006 11:40:07 AM · #13 |
i have the asuka and graphi studio price lists, just not the queensbury one.
I can't say I have seen it in person, but the flush mount albums frighten me a bit. Can it really look that good, sticking a picture onto a sticky page? I guess if it was 'flush' with the edge it could look pretty good, but the 'do it at home' books that queensbury offered, and the art leather flush mount books leave a 'little' edge around the image.
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10/24/2006 10:42:56 AM · #14 |
Originally posted by leaf:
i would say that graphi studio takes the cake for fancy high class albums. Their prices aren't listed as they market to professional photographers only. The same goes for asukabooks.
I thought asuka was supposed to be not too bad quality, marksimms?? i haven't seen any of their books mind you, just read different things in forums.
anyone know how queensberry pricing compares to graphistudio? I have a graphistudio price list, but don't know much about queensberry. |
Leaf - Asuka are `OK`.. Not stunning, but they do the job (that is, low end, average quality coffee table books). The pages are flimsy and I found that any pages that are `black` seem to attract finger prints. But for a couple on a budget they fill a niche nicely.
Graphistudio is one option I am currently examining, and after talking to other photographers when we was exhibiting at the National Wedding Shows at Earls Court London & the Birmingham NEC I am quite tempted to buy in their samples package and open an account. Their prices are not hugely inflated over the Asuka books either. (leaf, if you PM me then I will send the current Asuka pricelist).
However Queensberry, whilst expensive, actually look and feel expensive. The Albums, when properly designed are absolutely stunning, and although I sound biased, they blew away the competitions offerings, also, out of 25 photographers exhibiting at the shows, only 2 others had Queensberry albums, so they retain a certain degree of exclusivity.
My advice is to shop around and dont settle for only one line of albums, as much as I like the Queensberrys, if something better came along at the right price, then I would consider them.. |
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10/24/2006 10:02:01 AM · #15 |
There are two ways of doing this - the 'magazine style' is a thin printed on paper book, either hard or soft bound. mypublisher is a low end version. Illuma and Asuka are better, but only accessible by pros - asuka checks, illuma (apollo photo imagizing) may or may not.
the other option is to make up the pages and have them printed as photographs and get a 'flush mount' type of album (as opposed to the matted type) - these have pages with self adhesive that you stick the print to. ArtLeather iMount books are of this type, but again, you have to be a pro to get acecss. TAP (taprell loomis) can be found on the web and they have similar products anyone can buy.
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10/24/2006 09:27:39 AM · #16 |
i would say that graphi studio takes the cake for fancy high class albums. Their prices aren't listed as they market to professional photographers only. The same goes for asukabooks.
I thought asuka was supposed to be not too bad quality, marksimms?? i haven't seen any of their books mind you, just read different things in forums.
anyone know how queensberry pricing compares to graphistudio? I have a graphistudio price list, but don't know much about queensberry.
Message edited by author 2006-10-24 09:30:25.
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10/24/2006 07:24:41 AM · #17 |
| I have an account with Asuka Book.. They are cheap, but compared to a lot of the other ones out there they look cheap (in my opinion). The pages are very flimsy, i.e, very easy to rip. But they are a cost effective solution to what you are looking for. However if you want something that is built like a tank, look at Graphistudios books, they do a large range and the quality is great. BUT, if you want something that both looks & feels awesome, is built like an aircraft carrier then take a look at Queensbury Albums. They supply both the classic style album and the more contempory `digital magazine` albums in a variety of styles, they supply the software to design the album (if you so wish). They also do what is known is a `Duo` album, which is a mixture of classic matted prints and also the `magazine` style printed directly on the page, Queensbury also have `fly out` pages which is great for those group shots as it expands to 4 pages wide. Granted they cost a fair bit but the customers absolutely love them.. |
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10/24/2006 06:41:15 AM · #18 |
Has any one used Blurb.com. It looks like great value and you can have a vast number of pages
161-200 for $47.95
301-440 for $79.95
Even with shipping to the UK this still appears to be an attractive offer.
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10/24/2006 05:41:36 AM · #19 |
Originally posted by PaulE:
I'm struggling to work out which is the best photobook vendor for my requirements. I want to compile my wedding photos in a leather-bound photobook (without a hole in the cover). Seem to me that the companies with good software do not do this (i.e. picaboo) and the companies that do it have poor software (i.e. yophoto).
Any suggestions? |
You could try www.photobox.co.uk
They do a leatherette cover with hole in the front. I have had one done and Quality was OK, but not great. I would not be happy to offer it as product to wedding clients.
I'm going to try MyPublisher next... |
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10/24/2006 05:22:15 AM · #20 |
I'm struggling to work out which is the best photobook vendor for my requirements. I want to compile my wedding photos in a leather-bound photobook (without a hole in the cover). Seem to me that the companies with good software do not do this (i.e. picaboo) and the companies that do it have poor software (i.e. yophoto).
Any suggestions? |
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09/26/2006 05:27:32 AM · #21 |
Can anyone tell me how thick the pages are in any of these photo books? I'm looking for one which has really tick (3-4mm) pages. Basically its like stiff card rather than paper. I have seen a number of Photographer using this type of book for wedding books but I didn't like to ask where they got them printed.
Any help, really appreciated. |
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11/17/2005 03:57:50 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by legalbeagle:
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
180 DPI to 200DPI |
Their printer runs on 175 lines per inch, which is presumably the reason for this restriction. Solid printing will probably provide better quality than ink jet, I would have thought, though. |
I will know more after my next book, as i missed the guidelines the first time and got (to everyone but me) good results. I found some of the pics soft and some blockiness, but then some pics were at ISO 800 and those seem the worst and the worst of them in the blackest areas (like a tux). It did warn me that some pics were too low DPI, but it didn;t tell me which ones, 1 or 20 of them....so i went ahead anyway. I do expect better results this next time though.
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11/17/2005 12:05:17 PM · #23 |
I rather like the results I got from Cornerstone Albums. I did not buy their software, I just did the layout using Adobe InDesign and Photos on PS CS. Worked out quite nicely.
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11/17/2005 12:02:24 PM · #24 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
180 DPI to 200DPI |
Their printer runs on 175 lines per inch, which is presumably the reason for this restriction. Solid printing will probably provide better quality than ink jet, I would have thought, though.
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11/17/2005 11:50:19 AM · #25 |
I can nit pick the album (mypublisher) but everyone that has seen it loves it.
I plan on getting another copy, gonna try teh leather and one side printing (same price as 2 sided printing) cause it'll make it thicker, and therfore more impressive.
Been reading up...spec wise, 180 DPI to 200DPI. Less will / might cause quality issues and more is a waste of upload time (so says their site).
I'll be ordering 6 more books in the next week, 2 8x12 hardcover and 4 6x9 softcover.
One idea i got from a wedding photographer was to order 2 albums every time -one to give, one to keep. The keeper can be a portfolio item, or what he also uses it for is he offers a warranty - If ever (or 5 years, etc) the bride loses, damages, or destroys her album, he will replace it free (one time). Since he has a back up copy this works. Great additional sales aid!
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