Digital ptinted and bound Albums

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Permalink Reply by Richard Pentin on August 10, 2007 at 11:36am

This company seem very good.

http://www.bookedimages.com/

I haven't used them yet but the quality looks excellent for the price. I plan to use them for a wedding at the end of this month - client wants 3 large coffee table books!

Another one you might want to check out is Sim2000.

http://www.sim2000imaging.com/coffee_table_albums.html">

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Permalink Reply by Richard Pentin on August 4, 2009 at 2:48pm

Hi Lisa

Following my last post I can now wholeheartedly vouch for Booked Images having used them several times with great results. The books look stunning - they're all beautifully hand-finished, use quality materials and the picture quality is absolutely superb. You get a personal service too - Nicole over there is a great help and very quick to respond to any queries. The slight drawback from my point of view is that the album design process is a bit laborious as you have to design each page in photoshop using their templates. Personally I'd prefer it if they had online design software but that's my only gripe. That said, they do offer a very affordable design service if you don't like the idea of designing the albums yourself.

So if you're looking for something classic, elegant and stylish and cater for a lot of upmarket weddings then I'd have no hesitation in recommending these guys.

Hope that helps.

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Permalink Reply by Martin Gisborne on August 11, 2007 at 7:11pm

The undisputed heavyweights of album and coffee table printing are:

Leather Craftsmen
Graphistudio
Queensberry

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Permalink Reply by lisa griffin on August 13, 2007 at 12:27am

many thanks, i will start my research...

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Permalink Reply by Susan Porter-Thomas on August 18, 2007 at 6:38am

I'm just looking into an American company called www.mypublisher.com which does the coffee table books at a fraction of the UK cost..I've heard the quality is really good, am going to do a test run on something to check it out...watch this space Susan

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Permalink Reply by Ann Foley Martin on August 19, 2007 at 4:08am

I think you can add Vision Art to the list of "undisputed heavyweights".
http://www.visionartbook.com/
They're pricey, but the quality is incredible.

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Permalink Reply by Martin Gisborne on August 21, 2007 at 2:09am

Ooh.. yeah... forgot Vision Art!!! Good catch... for more general books there is a great little company out of San Francisco called Blurb I've seen several samples and they look great...

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Permalink Reply by Josh andrews on August 20, 2007 at 6:44am

i've used a US company called Blurb (www.blurb.com). The prices are pretty reasonable depending on how large you want the book to be, how many pages, etc. The print and color quality is excellent, although the pages are a bit thin.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Burton on August 25, 2007 at 12:27am

Hi Lisa,

I've used sim2000 for over a year now on several albums and despite their terrible name they make a very good product!

Also check out the Belissimo range by Loxley in Glasgow. Again, a good product again at a good price.

I stopped using Queensberry a couple of years ago. They do make a first class product, but its pricy and its real pain in the **** to send an album the other side of the world to be corrected when they print the clients name wrong, or make a similar bargan basement blunder.

Hope this helps,

MB

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Permalink Reply by Teresa vigil on February 17, 2009 at 5:02pm

Pictobooks are the best, and with their new Bijou line its less than graphis and you get it ten days from upload, the faux leather are so real looking, Graphis does not care about clients, I would avoid them with all sanity.

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Permalink Reply by Josh Brown on June 30, 2009 at 11:36pm

You could try Asukabook, they are very good at what they do.

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