The best photo book and canvas printing companies

I'm researching where to buy photo books, canvases, even announcement cards for future clients, and want to hear fellow photographer's suggestions. I would appreciate any and all suggestions!
Thanks in advance,
Kara

Karen:
Regarding the dpi prefs that Ricktoronto mentioned download and run Pref Setter. Bring up the iPhoto preference file in it and the do a search for dpi in the search field at the top. The three settings you want to change to 300 are BookTargetImageDPI, BookTargetImageMediumDPI and BookTargetImageSmallDPI. After changing the current values to 300 do a save and quit Pref Setter. That's all you need to do.
You might want to think about these numbers. If you want an 1 page picture in a book it will be about 8 x 10.6. At 300 dpi you should have 2400 x 3200 pixels. To get a 4x6 scanned image so it will be close to 300 dpi if enlarged to the 8x10.6 (Apple uses 4:3 ratio and that would make it 8 x 10.6 or so) you'd need to scan it at 3200/6 or about 530 dpi.
All of my books have been made with digital images from my camera that ranged from 1600 x 1200 to 2272 x 1704 and all of the photos came out very good. All of my books have been in the Story Book theme.

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