I dunno what other peoples experiences have been with viovio, but i thought i'd share mine. I ordered a test book because their prices seemed pretty amazing and i have a family reunion i have to print some books on and i wanted to increase my profit margin a bit. I have to be able to charge around 80-90 bucks for a book like this around here, i have no choice. So anyways, i upload some pics through their terrible system. Every other place i've tried has a much easier and friendlier to use system than this, but i figure oh well, a little extra work no big deal.
I place the order, 20ish bucks for a 8x10 book. I get an email confirmation right away. I get one three days later saying the book has gone to print. Book arrives another 4 days later. They take a bit longer than blurb for example.
So today i get the book. I open the package and first thing i notice is the cover looks terrible. The photo is way more contrasty than what i uploaded and it has a drastic color temp change to the cool side. The cover is pretty lightweight as well. So i open the book, pages are very light weight and cheap feeling. I look at the first pic, wow, TERRIBLE. There's color banding all over it and a bunch of blue bands all over the pic where color gradients change. I go through the book and every single pic has this blue banding and every single pic has had it's color temp altered towards the cool side drastically. I followed all the instructions uploading the pics and such, so the color temp aside, the blue printing bands in all the pics are just unbelievably unacceptable. The quality of the print on the pics is absolutely horrid. I printed the exact same pics in this book as i did in a blurb test book and the quality is night and day different.
If anyones thinking of using them for a book, i'd think twice. I couldn't be less happy with the print quality or color and the general quality of the book. Moral of the story, you get what you pay for. It looks like around 40 bucks cost is the cheapest you can expect to find a decent quality book.
Maybe someone else had some better luck, but i'd highly recommend against using viovio.
I place the order, 20ish bucks for a 8x10 book. I get an email confirmation right away. I get one three days later saying the book has gone to print. Book arrives another 4 days later. They take a bit longer than blurb for example.
So today i get the book. I open the package and first thing i notice is the cover looks terrible. The photo is way more contrasty than what i uploaded and it has a drastic color temp change to the cool side. The cover is pretty lightweight as well. So i open the book, pages are very light weight and cheap feeling. I look at the first pic, wow, TERRIBLE. There's color banding all over it and a bunch of blue bands all over the pic where color gradients change. I go through the book and every single pic has this blue banding and every single pic has had it's color temp altered towards the cool side drastically. I followed all the instructions uploading the pics and such, so the color temp aside, the blue printing bands in all the pics are just unbelievably unacceptable. The quality of the print on the pics is absolutely horrid. I printed the exact same pics in this book as i did in a blurb test book and the quality is night and day different.
If anyones thinking of using them for a book, i'd think twice. I couldn't be less happy with the print quality or color and the general quality of the book. Moral of the story, you get what you pay for. It looks like around 40 bucks cost is the cheapest you can expect to find a decent quality book.
Maybe someone else had some better luck, but i'd highly recommend against using viovio.
My own experience with Java was similar.
