Aperture Book Quality is Very Very Very Low

I just wanted to warn others about the quality of the Aperture books. I ordered a few from Apple. The printing quality is so poor I was shocked. I can't believe they would have a "professional" program with such a poor service.
Shame on Apple.

IMO, the book tool was only included as last minute "yeah we have that" thing.
LR lacks a book tool, but c'mon who in their right mind would actually sell Aperture books to a wedding client?
The quality of those books is like showing up to a wedding with a 3 megapixel compact point and shoot camera.
I do recognize that they do serve a purpose, it just is not in the same class as real albums.
Heck the books from SharedInk are the same price and they blow the Aperture books outta the water.

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Hello everyone,
My photo studio has been using Aperture for 8 months now and we are very happy with it. We love the organization, web output, etc. We also LOVE the book design layouts, but the quality of the book printing has been degrading over that past few months.
The first books we printed with Apple (around Nov/Dec 2006) were great, then about 3 months ago, we noticed the labels on the hardcover books went down in qulaity (almost like they were just using a color laser printer), and today we received five books in the mail and the quality is terrible. Also, two of the books have the "Made on a Mac" page in the back (like iPhoto).
It seemed to me (since I have had books printed by both Aperture & iPhoto) that the older Aperture books were of higher quality than the iPhoto books. Now, it seems as though they are one-in-the-same and our studio cannot have this lower quality book - it is not up to our standards.
I would gladly use another manufacturer, but every other design software out there for each respective company is terrible and takes three times as long for us to design a single book. I LOVE the integration of the books in Aperture and it makes our timeline two weeks shorter with our clients and that is what sets us apart from other studios in this town.
Has anyone else had these problems or noticed the change/degridation in the quality of the books?
Thanks!

C'mon Apple,
There is no way you don't know that the quality of your "sticker" covers is horrible. Maybe when you first launched your book service, but it has now been years. I just received three books, and all three have tacky, peeling front stickers.
Please give us an alternative, even if it costs more, that allows us to show our work with pride. After spending thousands and thousands on computers, software, cameras, lenses, etc., the cover of the books drags that first impression into the ground.
Thanks!

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I am using the A3 and want to print a book, but I am not sure about the quality, according to the Apple website, sure they mention PROFESSIONAL quality in text and images. In the real world, is it true professional quality?
I did some research on Web and some people say good and some people are disappointed. Most people, who are saying good, are in Europe. I am in Australia, not quite sure about it. I went to Apple Store in Sydney and asked to have a look on the sample books. Yes, they were true professional quality photo book...
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My wife and I recently had a book made from Aperture 3. It was the Large size with 100 pages. The first copy we received had a registration problem that caused white type on a black background to have a magenta tint. It was very noticeable so we submitted the problem and they sent another book that was much better.
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I've asked the Apple book support group for answers to the printing resolutions but they do not have those answers. Any professional book printing place would be able to tell you what screen ruling is used for images and what resolution is used for text. Note that black text all looked good.
Our next book will not be with Apple unless we can get answers.

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Diana Phillips wrote:
Are books from aperture and iphoto printed using the same quality paper,printers,inks etc????
OR is aperture better. I am not referring to the layout options just print quality.
Sadly, it appears that there is a bug in Aperture 2.1, and images printed from books within Aperture, whether by Apple or on your own printer, have serious colour management issues. This only affects images printed +from books+ within Aperture.

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Hi guys,
I got a real trouble with aperture book printing.
The cover is Ugly it looks like it's scratched over some miles. It's Mate. And it looks printed with a poor inkjet printer.
Inside the book the photos looks almost correct but in the skies we can see some vertical line. I'm fully unsatisfied I got better result with iphoto books !
Please Apple do something. I ordered this book from France. Ans I saw on different forums that they can get better quality than this outside France.
The paper looks very light.
I'm considering ordering books from blurb. And I feel sorry cause aperture tool to create a book is awsome.
Did any french photograph experienced this ?
Regards every one.
Bye.
PS : I printed the pdf and checked at 100% the photos looks great.

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Are you using the front or rear camera? When you say they are low quality, are you referring to file/pixel size, or how the picture looks? As far as upside down, how are you holding the phone? Older versions of Windows have issues reading the Metadata from the pictures and will not display the same.

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Final cut Express
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It sounds as though you may have imported the thumbnails but I can't imagine how.
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They should still look OK but not as good as the brilliant hi-res originals.
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stewa348 wrote:
I agree with you about the volume on the phone itself. (I have 3Gs). It needs to be louder. I also wear hearing aids. However I do think there may be something wrong with your phone because when I connect my earbuds (Klipsh) I get very good volume through them. In fact at full volume it's way too loud. I would push for a replacement phone.
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Hi,
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts5196
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