Where to print photo books?

[silverstang23]

Where does everyone print photobooks? I'm looking for a place to print high quality photo pages. I have used blurb before and was not happy

Thanks for the suggestions

[neil_r]

Why not give us a clue as to what part of the world you are in.

International forum, owned by Pekka in Finland with people all over the world, so if you are in the UK I use a pro lab called One Vision Imaging Ltd.

[Bob_A]

AdoramaPix books are excellent IMO. After using them I won't be going back to Blurb.

[silverstang23]

I'm in the southeast us

[Catfish_John1979]

Ive gotten two free photo books from AdoramaPix and absolutely love em.. great prices and fantastic outcome will continue getting prints from adorama other than what i print on my pixma 9000 pro II but sometimes cheaper to have printed

[undcover]

I vote for AdoramaPix too. I've made four books with them and they all came out great.

[bcarlsen]

First it depends on whether you are planning on printing them online or not. In this day in age, it's most likely going to be online, and there are several places you can develop photo books. Before you do so, shop around and see if any online store is offering deals or not. Regardless, it's best to stay with one company over the long run (if you think you will make many purchases), because they will probably reward you. Enjoy!

[maxroe]

Etsy seems to have a lot of pretty good places to upload pictures and design photo books. I'm not so sure if they're very cheap, but people on Etsy usually do a really good job of giving you quality work.

[grizfilm]

Costco! Cheap and they did a great job on a book of Granddaughter pictures.

[butterfly2937]

Originally Posted by grizfilm

Costco! Cheap and they did a great job on a book of Granddaughter pictures.

On what kind of paper?

[drmaxx]

Can someone comment on the AdoramaPix - blurb comparison?
Why do you prefer AdoramaPix?

I used blurb with the Lightroom 4.1 book module directly with the raw files and are reasonably happy with the results. Mostly smaller formats with premium lustre paper.
Nevertheless, I would like to see if I can improve...

[Bob_A]

Originally Posted by drmaxx

Can someone comment on the AdoramaPix - blurb comparison?
Why do you prefer AdoramaPix?

I'll give it a shot ...

Blurb is great if you want something that is printed like a typical book (CMYK printing). The images look good, but nothing special. On the other hand the book cover is excellent.

With Adorama your images are printed on photographic paper so they are much higher quality. However, this means that to get images on both sides of a page they are quite thick and the pages don't feel like thumbing through a standard book. The book cover isn't as nice as what you get from Blurb.

For me these kinds of books are used to replace old style photo albums. I care most about image quality, so based on that I prefer Adoramapix.

[a_roadbiker]

I made a photo book for my parents for Christmas. I had it done at Snapfish and it was really easy because there is a link from flickr to Snapfish.

Jim

[craig_k]

i like the overall quality of my publisher over blurbs.....1 blurb job, 15 or so my publisher

[artbynoel]

FinerWork.com is a good place to go for creating professional photo-books. They've got a serious amount of templates, or you can design your own - better yet, the pages can be laid out to your preference. I just spent about an hour having fun with their interface. But the coolest is that they don't require you to download any software. You just have to upload images. And if you have an account, you can even save your project, log out, and return a month later to finish if you wanted to. Definitely the most versatile I've come across online. Good luck!