[Leica] LUG yearbook, European print partners, etc.

[jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman)]

Peter,

Here's how the blurb.com system works.  I upload a file for the LUG yearbook
to the blurb.com server.  I then make it available for purchase to anyone
around the world (or at least to the blurb.com list of approved countries).


When you purchase a copy, blurb.com notes your address, and then assigns the
printing job to their print partner closest to you.  Copies are only printed
upon sale--unlike conventional books, which require an advance order and a
specific press run. 

A print partner is a company that has agreed to print blurb.com books on
their HP Indigo 5500 equipment, which is equipped to print high-quality
color images and then bind them into a hardcover or softcover book.

So, that means that somewhere in the EU there's a print partner for
blurb.com--quite an improvement from last year, when there was none.  The
shipping charges will be based on an intra-EU shipment, rather than a parcel
coming from the USA.

Best,
Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Peter
Dzwig
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:01 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Reminder to All--LUG Yearbook 2007 who is printing the
yearbook

Jim,

does that mean that they can take copy from your "production setup" in the
States and run of x copies in the EU, or do we Europeans need to set up our
own
account/project or whatever? As a matter of fact do you know in which
country?

I am sure that it will be stunning, last year's was!

Thanks again

Peter Dzwig