Where is the best place to order Photo Books from? (Wedding Album)

[freeflydrew]

(I cross posted after I realized there is a wedding forum)
I have created a 90 page album using Apple's Aperture and I'm ready to order a printed version, but I have read that the quality through aperture/iphoto can be really poor.

So I'm looking to order my wedding album for somewhere else... somewhere with exceptional print quality and good binding. Somewhere that others have used in the past and wouldn't hesitate to use again.
(I don't mind recreating the book using photoshop or indesign)

If I screw this up, my wife will kill me!


The photos are all 8 megapixel raw

OR if anyone has other suggestions instead of ordering the book online, please let me know.

Thanks!
the groom

[stupot]

cant really help you... except ive used the iphoto book service. ordered an 8x6 inch paperback book. the print quality isnt outstanding, more like glossy magazine prints on thicker paper, but its good enough for me. its quite a neat little book for the price though, but i dont think its worthy of a wedding album, im sure you can get much nicer. i used it to display photos as part of my uni project work.

there are books you can print yourself with some kind of clip in binding...http://www.warehouseexpress.com/inde...opus/opus.html

[freeflydrew]

I also used iphoto's book ordering service to make a book of skydiving pics and was totally disappointed by the results! The pics were grainy, the dots were visible, and the photos all looked washed out...
Thanks for the link, but I'm hoping for more of a high end solution... besides, I only have a dye sub printer so that wouldn't work anyway :-\
Thanks again!

[tim]

There are heaps of book manufacturers. I use www.asukabook.com but you'll probably have to redesign it from scratch or do batch conversions.

[freeflydrew]

Do you know how much the asukabooks cost?

[tim]

Yes, I do.

[freeflydrew]

gotcha

[tim]

I should probably expand on that. Asuka only releases price information to professional photographers. I respect their choice not to release price information publicly. Go to their website and sign up, if you're approved you can see their price lists.

[NGrinerPhoto]

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...d.php?t=143805