Aperture Book Printing+Poor Print Quality

Hello,
I'm wondering if this is a one off, but i just received a book printed through Aperture, the printed pages look terrible, there's banding through several of the images, the images are grainy, it looks like they have printed it on a lazer printer. the images all print fine on an Epson 7800, so there's no problem with the images.
Has anyone had these problems - or did i just get a bad example ?
Thanks
Darren

It depends.
There do seem to be several reports of pages (on the interior, in particular) printing with washed-out coloring.
You can contact Photo Services and get a credit. They can also review the file and see if there is a problem there; they keep the files for 40 days.

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