I think this is the hot topic right now in the forum - and there's new info there about the Lulu experience (are you experienced?). Incidentally - the main saving grace for me through this has been loading the Allman Brothers Band on my iPod. Whipping Post seems to be the appropriate song. I suppose that someday I'll do some shooting again - but don't hold yer breath. I'm basically just printing (good ole 4800), experimenting with ads, and doing the publishing stuff right now. Paul's Lulu book arrived and as I say - it's actually pretty good. Paul's Lulu Book (scroll to the bottom)
I don't know how to link to a specific reply in the forum.
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Hi Dave,
Bill sent me the link to your current blog discussion of the lulusaga, and this would be solely because this is the exact idea I proposed if he would just let me design an unusual calendar for him to use for ... well, getting his work stuck on art director's walls and far more. I wasn't sure I could have high hopes for lulu; seemed too good to be true that the underfunded could still offer it up for others, but I'm so dismayed.
Sorry to ask you this off the blog, and you're welcome to post it if you want/think others would find it of interest, but I'm really stuck on this issue of submission of PDFs. They asked you for PDFs for final printing?? They didn't ask for or let you supply high res CMYK .tif images? More color management there, and all around more reason to have faith....
[Julie for the calendar - all they accept is an RGB JPG. Period For books, the recommend a PDF with embedded RGB files. But I believe they will take CMYK files, but what they'll do to them, I don't know.]
If you're doing a fairly standard size calendar, I have a strong recommendation for a printer, from a group that just send me LOADS of their work. So many pieces they sprung out of the pocket folder like trick snakes out of the peanut butter brittle can. But they're good to have bookmarked, and if you don't already know them, go to the site and request their sample packet.
[Julie, I just requested samples from them. Telling them that what I really wanted was a good b&w calendar.]
EXCEPTIONAL printing. I was overwhelmed. Very good prices, and an unbelievable variety of what they'll print for you. But, overall, the print quality was unexpected. Best of all, they're independent and devoted to artists who are just doing everything they can to get the
truth of the creation to reproduce.
www.jakprints.com
And now I'll have to review their booklet to see what files they allow for this purpose. The hatching -- was it at all moire like, where lulululu didn't adjust this plate or that by a few degrees? Curious.
[It wasn't moire in the way that I'm used to seeing it with digital images where it happens in certain areas where there are fine lines and high contrast. It was just this general cross-hatch pattern. Maybe they just ran out of ink :)]
Hope you've been well, and have a wonderful morning....
Julie
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