you do this sort of stuff for a living and so must have felt great
satisfaction at holding your work in your very hands before....
but it surely must make you very proud to hold one of those?
How does it feel?... tell us...tell us!
Steve
Actually Steve - I develop software that manages the advertising input and preflight/prepress workflow for large publishers, newspapers and magazines. This is the very first time I've ever started and completed a whole book though! I used knowledge I have in terms of image prep and separation to CMYK, because every single image I received from contributors was set up for general web display in RGB colour space.
Apart from that, the rest was a first time for me. The printers, Blue Star Print Group in Sydney, were fantastic to deal with. I simply clicked with the requirements as described by their prepress manager Eddie, and that made it a breeze. Thanks guys!
Holding it for the first time is a terrific feeling, I can tell you, and yes I'm proud of it for sure! For only 80 pages it's quite thick, and the stock is very nice. It's well bound, but it's not one of those books you'd want to force flat along the spine - I think you'd inadvertently break it. Treat it well like any other book and it'll be fine.
The next one might have white (or light) covers though - the gloss black has fingerprints on it in no time! LOL! It's like a WO scope in that regard - so keep a polish cloth nearby.
Enjoy it everyone, I think it's great. The image quality is very good across the board - even the lower-resolution examples that most people sent in came out very well. It'll be a great benchmark for next time around - and plenty of people will see their image in print for the first time. This will let them consider what is required for the next one, which was the whole point of the exercise. I think that most came out better than we're used to seeing in our usual magazines.
Mike has a few more left, so if you haven't ordered one then there's still a chance. We're only doing this one print run...until next year's.
Just want to pass on a big thanks to you all from my Dad, Chris and Mike have been an absolute pleasure to deal with and this has been one of the smoothest print jobs to arrange. A number of employees at Blue Star who saw this job while in production had very good things to say about the images in this project and the professional manner it was set out.
And no, I have not had a sneak preview of the book at all, I'm as excited as everybody else!!!!!
Thanks to the trains, I didn't get home until late and I'm off to Melbourne this morning and don't get home until tomorrow night.
To make sure I've found the right postage option, I put some together last night and I'll be sending about 18 packs out this morning - the lucky sods who were first to order and pay, and the generous sods who ordered 3 or more books.
So you guys should receive yours before the end of the week.
To everyone else, thanks for your patience. I'm sure you understand. I didn't start packing until 10pm last night and had to get up at 3:20am this morning for the 6am flight
I'll be sending more on Friday, and likely the bulk of them on Monday. I need to head back to the P.O to buy more of the padded bags.
This Melbourne trip was unexpected, and it actually takes quite a while to put all the orders into the bags, write the names and addresses etc.
Having said all that, Chris is right. They do look and feel BRILLIANT!
Whohoo! I ordered 2 and as an early bird too. Does that mean I'm double lucky sod? Can't wait now... I feel the pain..
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Originally Posted by iceman
I received them yesterday (Tuesday arvo).
Thanks to the trains, I didn't get home until late and I'm off to Melbourne this morning and don't get home until tomorrow night.
To make sure I've found the right postage option, I put some together last night and I'll be sending about 18 packs out this morning - the lucky sods who were first to order and pay, and the generous sods who ordered 3 or more books.
So you guys should receive yours before the end of the week.
To everyone else, thanks for your patience. I'm sure you understand. I didn't start packing until 10pm last night and had to get up at 3:20am this morning for the 6am flight
I'll be sending more on Friday, and likely the bulk of them on Monday. I need to head back to the P.O to buy more of the padded bags.
This Melbourne trip was unexpected, and it actually takes quite a while to put all the orders into the bags, write the names and addresses etc.
Having said all that, Chris is right. They do look and feel BRILLIANT!
I knew I shouldn't have made that cup of coffee in between posting on MAS' web site regarding the Compendium and then coming to do the same here - Chris has beaten me to it!
The book looks great! Excellent photographs and a professional presentation. Well done to everyone involved and thanks for making it available.
tell us...tell us!
The printers, Blue Star Print Group in Sydney, were fantastic to deal with. I simply clicked with the requirements as described by their prepress manager Eddie, and that made it a breeze. Thanks guys!
Can't wait now... I feel the pain.. 
