The Snapfish Memory Book (9 x 11 hardcover) arrived today. Having a part of a page glued to the cover doesn't work for me. I suspect that I could pull the paper off the cover, or learn to live with it. But the cover is black linen.
Open the book up. There's a nice black interior. Turn the page, there's an acetate see-through page.
And now we've made it into the book itself and the paper / printing for b&w. You know what, it's not bad. It's better than Lulu - because there is little if any tinge. The major issue is that the blacks are not black enough. But this is probably always the result from even the best toner based printers.
There is a slight magenta tone to almost all of the photos in the middle tonal ranges. You'd rather be without it, but at least it is consistent throughout the book. Again - it's the type of thing that not everybody would notice.
And there are some sharpening artifacts - but I figure that's my fault because this stuff shouldn't be sharpened before handing it off to Snapfish.
Oh, and on the last page before the flyleaf page - there's a fairly big logo that reads:
personally customized at snapfish, a service of HP with a fish icon and an HP logo. I don't know - is that so bad? Don't publishers usually fill lots of pages with published by BIG PUBLISHING COMPANY, first published by blah blah blah. We like that stuff. What's wrong with Personally Customized at Snapfish. Oh well - I'm doing my best rationalizations.
In fact - this whole thing is promising. It's the right price. And the image rendition is pretty good. Not for the expert on art-books, but for the regular Joe who just wants something nice to look at. I need to seriously look at their site again to see what options are for this process.
