2/5

posted Nov-27-2012
Other than black and white photography, my Blurb produced books (eight of them) have been printed beautifully. My book of photography, half with black and white photos and half with color, is a major disappointment. The B&Ws are dull, warm gray tones even though I purposely add a cyan tint to my black and whites to make them cool grays. I was about to upload two more books to Blurb when I encountered a problem (seven crashes with full loss of data in a two hour period). I contacted Blurb customer support and haven't heard back a thing. As they no longer seemed to have a customer focus, I've decided to look elsewhere for my printing needs.
In addition, Blurb's newest products, brochures and magazines, are only available to designers using Adobe's InDesign program. They expect you to shell out $700 for software to produce a $12 magazine. Doesn't seem customer friendly to me.
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