Originally Posted by
faraz
I've just sold the last copies of my small run of books featuring around 50 sepia and selenium toned prints. Printing to satisfaction was a challenge.
The trouble with Blurb and any digital printing is colour consistency and its particularly bad for BnW. It's almost impossible to control small colour shifts through even a small print run since the greys are made up of CMYK and even the slightest shift is obvious in BnW. I had differences in tone in a single run of 25 books, let alone between runs. Pro photobooks are always litho printed often duo-litho for BnW. The exact black and other inks are set from the start and can be tested until correct. Then only those inks are used and the whole process ensures consistency. Litho can use more paper types and uncoated paper in particular doesn't look great on digital. However due to the overhead it's only worth it if you're doing at least 200 and many printers won't even consider it for less than 1000 copies.
Happy I was able to produce a book, but open a Nazraeli Press book for example and the difference in print quality is night and day.
I used Mixam print in the UK btw
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