Please suggest Photobook local printer

AAC

Planning to make one photobook not more than 40 pages for my parents to celebrate their anniversary.  Appreciate all local photobook printer suggestions.  Price of Costo is good but more limitation on their templates.  Something like I need to use their default background graphic but I want to use mine.  Thx.

Look4chrisng

I don't know about costco, but I had printed in London Drugs.  The results were bad beyond imaginations.  I think costco is at the same league.  MWF printer is the cashier, and the rest is the gal works at cosmetics.
  
If it is something special.  Buy an Epson printer and print at home and do a scrapbook.
Or there is Lens and shutter at 悅海大酒樓 .  At least the printer guy is a photogarpher

fibbi

Blacks book is decent. I got a few from them. For online publisher, I like shutterfly.

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I read that Costco sends out to "Mypublisher"
which I have used and the quality is ok ga

I looked at blacks, there is not much to choose from their online templates.....

maybe you should consider online.....
I have done one from mypublisher
then I have looked at one my frd got from mixbook
and I have heard a lot of good comments about shutterfly as well
all of the above 3 have great online/offline software to work on, templates are quite flexible

fibbi

For online publisher, I have tried Blurb, Photobook Canada and Shutterfly.
In my opinion, Blurb has the best pricing, especially w/ lots of pages. My 150 page books is about $70US (including shipping to Canada). Quality is ok but I think recently they give you option to upgrade the paper. I think it will help.

Shutterfly has best pricing since there are also promotion goes on. And I like the padded hard cover. Plus lots of template to choose from. Customer service is very good too. (There's someone to answer the phone, quick!)

Photobook Canada offers the best quality IMO. I upgraded the paper and it's very heavy and pearl-like shine, which I like a lot. But price-wise it's the most expensive, but keep in mind that the book is 40-pages and others are 20 pages. So it's expensive but not much more expensive. There are groupon deals or other deal out periodically.

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quality-wise
do you mean paper quality or the print quality?

the one I helped to get from mypublisher for my friend
the quality is good but if I look very closely, the pixels from printing is still visible lor (quite sure it's from the printing process and not the quality of the photos I submitted)

fibbi

Print quality and paper quality I like Photobook Canada the most. But it's also the most expensive.

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yeah...........it's expensive
$80 for 40 pages

normally it's about $30-35 for 20 pages from other places
let's say I buy 2 and I still get another hardcover for "free" comparing to the $80 for 40 pages, haha. But I guess the shipping evening it out, unless there is special promote going on~

fibbi

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    I ordered from Shutterfly and ship to point roberts coz shipping is free within US.
Blurb shipping rate is not that bad about $12(that's before didn't check recently, also depends on the type of book). But what I worried about the most is the brokeage fee...
Blurb ship w/ Fedex or UPS I can't remember. that time Blurb write the book as $20 so that's why no brokeage fee. But if they specify the real price...brokeage fee will be sky high. So it's just more safe to ship to US.
Photobook Canada doesn't have this problem as it shipped from Canada so no need for brokeage fee lor. But shipping is not free.

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I think UPS is the one that has brokerage fee.........so annoying!!!