Thanks, you all.
I'm very upset this afternoon. I just received what I was hoping to be the final copy of the book.
It looks awful. Just terrible. The cover printed awfully. It is just god-awful and I'm about to cry.
My file was a good file... high resolution... I bought the front cover photo.
The back looks different than previous proofs I've purchased. The previous ones were fine. This one is NOT fine.
The interior pages of the book are also NOT fine. The earlier proof copies I purchased, I was very pleased with the artwork & photography reproduction. It looked good.
These are all pixelated and greyed out. I'm so upset.
OBVIOUSLY, lulu.com has zero quality control. It is clear to me as daylight that they are shipping out the files to various different printshop vendors to output the final product. Some are fine, some are not.
This is no good. It's not acceptable. I will get my money back for this copy and I will search the web until I find some other company to produce this book.
I'm sorry, folks. I'm a stickler for creating a good product. I can't possibly put this book out there for you.
I'm very disappointed.
Well on the bright side, at least the content file is as perfect as it can be now and so is the front cover. I love the front cover. I KNOW the interior CAN look good so there's that.
I just have to find the right POD service to output this for us.
More delays. How unfortunate.
I wish those people had a phone number so I could call them up and do my complaining over the telephone. This just sucks.
