2 New MagCloud portfolios by Randy Efros

[Richard M. Coda]

Randy Efros, Brett Weston's last assistant, has two new MagCloud portfolios available online. These are MagCloud versions of his last two books, "The Scotland Portfolio (http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/310698)" and "Hawaii Leaves (http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/295753)"

[Kirk Gittings]

Looks good Richard.

What is the quality of Mag Cloud compared to the other on demand printers?

[Richard M. Coda]

Looks good Richard.

What is the quality of Mag Cloud compared to the other on demand printers?

Hi Kirk.

I have to tell you... it is as good or better than who we are using for his 11x11" books. They use a Xerox DocuTech (toner based) and Magcloud is HP Indigo (ink based). The downsides are 1) you only have two sizes (US Letter and US Half Letter)... basically 8.25" wide; 2) no paper choices; 3) only saddle-stitched or perfect bound softcovers. If you are looking for a leave behind, they are great... inexpensive (and they have coupons occasionally - you'll have to search the net for them). Also perfect for exhibit catalogs. You can design around the US Letter thing... for instance if you want a 8.25" square book, you can keep your content within that area and take the books to a printer/book-binder and have them guillotine them to 8.25" high.

There are other (commercial) printers out there using the same technology (Blurb comes to mind) where you have more options as far as size, paper choice, bindings, etc., but they generally cost a lot more.

They ARE adding products/sizes as they become more popular and get requests. I have requested landscape US Ltr size. They are now offering fliers and brochures (11x17 folded)...