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I am in the process of looking for a printing company in the UK (or ships internationally) for a couple copies of a album of my wedding photos.

Basically I have all the RAWs from the photographer and want to print my own album, I dont mind designing it myself. (InDesign I assume) Im sure it would be less than the £600 more the photographer was going to charge anyway.
I want reasonable quality, if you are going to be picky about an album this would be the one I think.

I know quite a few of you guys on here do weddings in the summer, who do you use for the albums?

The only reasonable solution I have found is www.blurb.com

Thanks in advance
Tom

Graphi's pretty reasonably priced from Italy

Finao is good in america.

but for most of these they generally check you out and make sure you're a legit wedding photog and not someone such as yourself trying to do it yourself

i was going to suggest blurb, i've been wanting to make one but not sure how well it will turn out as i'm only using a basic 4490 scanner..

thanks, still havent made a decision. Looks like blurb at the moment

If you are sending your images to blurb for a photobook, make sure that you overexpose your images a bit more than normal as they are printed underexposed.

I made one for my wife and we mad one for my mother when my wife and I got married. Both books had underexposed photos.

I was also not a big fan of either the paper nor the quality of the book.

Blurb's quality is pretty good for what it is but I did have some serious customer service issues when ordering once. The book never showed up and I had to talk to and email back and forth with a few customer services drones until they finally coughed up store credit equal to what I payed. The credit didn't work so I had to go through the whole terrible process again just to get my money back.

I had ordered other books before that turned out fine but I doubt I'll order from them again.

Just wondering when you ordered them? I ordered my first one when Blurb first came out and then the second a few years ago. Maybe my photos were a little underexposed to begin with with such a bright screen.

Ryan Cathrall wrote:
Just wondering when you ordered them? I ordered my first one when Blurb first came out and then the second a few years ago. Maybe my photos were a little underexposed to begin with with such a bright screen.

Is your monitor calibrated? I'd find it hard to believe any photo printer these days could afford the customer service issues of photos being printed dark.

It was on a monitor that I no longer have. It was calibrated right out of the box at our apple reseller.

I am def. overdue for a monitor calibration for the MBP though.