- Location
- Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Name
- Sue
Used to be that Apple photobooks were printed in the US, before we got the Apple Stores out here. Now they are printed in Japan. Quality remains very good.
I'm glad I got the monitor I have, because it turns out the calibration is pretty much perfect. What I see is what I get, pretty much Happy. Some of the shots were a little dark, but that was user error, not the printers, I knew they were dark but a couple were too dark to be considered OK. The surface of the paper is a fingerprint magnet, I chose to have black as the background and its *really* obvious. However, the quality is far superior to that of blurb on the internal pages... a heavier duty paper was used. The cover is of the same quality, though the blurb was glossy and the apple one is matte. I don't know how much more flexibility there is with either of them, I'd quite like a glossy cover from Apple.
I'll take some more photographs (maybe) when I can get myself organised with decent lighting. My study lamp is far too reflective... but heres one of it laying over my keyboard, with a pen on top, for reference for size. This is what Apple called "Medium". Its actually the same size, but rectangular, I think, as the "small" blurb which I think is what we had for SIJ.
Its a slim volume, only 22 pages (naturally, I started with a Thomas book) and the cost of printing and shipping was around $25AUD
I'm glad I got the monitor I have, because it turns out the calibration is pretty much perfect. What I see is what I get, pretty much Happy. Some of the shots were a little dark, but that was user error, not the printers, I knew they were dark but a couple were too dark to be considered OK. The surface of the paper is a fingerprint magnet, I chose to have black as the background and its *really* obvious. However, the quality is far superior to that of blurb on the internal pages... a heavier duty paper was used. The cover is of the same quality, though the blurb was glossy and the apple one is matte. I don't know how much more flexibility there is with either of them, I'd quite like a glossy cover from Apple.
I'll take some more photographs (maybe) when I can get myself organised with decent lighting. My study lamp is far too reflective... but heres one of it laying over my keyboard, with a pen on top, for reference for size. This is what Apple called "Medium". Its actually the same size, but rectangular, I think, as the "small" blurb which I think is what we had for SIJ.
Its a slim volume, only 22 pages (naturally, I started with a Thomas book) and the cost of printing and shipping was around $25AUD