color print-on-demand

[xiombarg]

Well, it seems that booklocker can do color POD printing. It's pricer than rpgmall.com or lulu.com, but it might lower the barrier for people who want to do a full-color extravaganza like the 1st edition Changeling book.

Anyone know anything about this outfit? Anyone else have any experience with a POD outfit that does color? How does booklocker's pricing compare to other POD outfits?

[hardcoremoose]

Kirt,

I asked Media Express - the guys who did My Life with Master - about this a few months back.  My request:

fifty pages (36 B&W, 16 full color), 50#
color cover, 65# opague
perfect bound

Their response:

Print run of 50: $6.90 per copy
Print run of 100: $5.56 per copy

Hope this info helps.

- Scott

[madelf]

I thought lulu.com would do color...

[Paul Czege]

I asked Media Express - the guys who did My Life with Master...

That's http://www.expressmedia.com/">eXpress.media.

Paul

[talysman]

I thought lulu.com would do color...

yep. says so right here.

lulu.com will also do color printing on a book with more pages than booklocker.com, which seems to be limited to no more than 120 pages. compare this to lulu's comment "Very, very long books (over 800 pages or so) may have to be printed in volumes."

for booklocker, you will need to spend $299 on setup plus buy 20 copies at $9.72 each, which is $493.40 total outlay.

for lulu, there is no initial outlay.

[xiombarg]

for lulu, there is no initial outlay.

Okay, I wasn't aware that lulu.com did color... So they're behind the curve on that one, then. They claim to be competitive with other POD services, but I suspected their comparison was selective. ;-D