My Inkubook order has arrived and its really cute!
September 22nd, 2008 by HeidiTable of contents for Inkubook book experience
- Creating a book at Inkubook
- Inkubook photo book is printed and on its way…
- My Inkubook order has arrived and its really cute!
- very, very disappointed with Inkubook service
I had ordered a 8.5 x 8.5 softcover book. And its really cute!
Order processing, printing & delivery:
- Time from order to in my hands: 7 days. Excellent that I didn’t have to wait too long. (I actually waited so long for my Heritage Makers order that I had forgotten I had ordered it. )
The quality of the pictures & pages:
- The image quality was almost identical to Shutterfly, Viovio & Heritage Makers.
- Color. This was a little different was colors. I felt that Shutterfly’s color were a little truer but Inkubook was better color than Heritage Maker’s colors. Viovio s color were almost identical to Inkubook s.
- The feel of the page was very comparable to Shutterfly & Viovio s pages. Heritage Makers had more weight to them.
Binding:
- The binding is glued I think. I can t really compare to the other books because they are hardcover.
A few extra thoughts:
- Gutter of the pages: This is how much of the page is covered to bind the book together. On your left page, you have to watch right side of the page. On your right page, you have to watch the left side of the page. Their preview tool didn t reflect the gutter. There were a few pages that were close to have text cut off on the gutter side. It would be nice if their tool reflected the gutter especially on full page bleeds.
Bonus:
- No company logo/label/name etc. This was really nice to see. I didn t have a UPC symbol or company name on the back of my book or anywhere in it. That was really nice. (I know some companies have different options and some you pay extra to get the name off of it.
Photos of book:
Front Cover:
Back Cover 
Inside pages were hard to take because the soft binding cover doesn t allow the book lay flat.
Side view:
Other good things to know from Inkubook s website:
- What kind of paper will my book be printed on?
- All books from Inkubook are printed on 100 lb. silk paper, which has a nice sheen without being super shiny and prone to collecting fingerprints.
- What kind of stock will the cover for my softcover book be printed on?
- Softcovers are printed on 100 lb. silk cover stock.
- For those flickr fans, you get get your photos from Flickr. Their help states: As a matter of fact, you can import photos from Flickr. I didn t try it though.
Conclusion:
- I would definitely go back and print at Inkubook. Especially when the 11 x 11 hardcover book is available.
- I loved their editor to create the book. It was by far the easiest and fastest and most intuitive to use so far. I also like the fact that I didn t have to download a tool to create the book.
- Prices are very reasonable. ($18.95 for 26 images.)
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Sep 22, 2008 - 08:09:50I attempted to order an inkubook and gave up half way through.
The site is horrible on pc computers.
Ordering windows worked ok for me; I use pc. Book should arrive soon.
If you plan to create a small book like 20 pages or so, it is fine. They advertise that you can have as many as 120 pages in one book. Do not even try. After about 50 pages, program starts to slow down, freezes and crashes. Tech support tells you that there is nothing they can do about it. Started to blame my computer (which is a state-of-the-art one).
Conclusion: I would rate it 3 out of 5 and 0 out of 5 for big projects (it simply does NOT work).
I just placed a order for a 120 page hardcover today for only $8. special promotion for new users. Yes it does crash and yes it did slow down a bit on the 120th page. pages 1-119 didnt slow and it mostly slowed down because of the amount of pictures i had uploaded. DO NOT USE Internet Explorer it takes years to upload and download… Firefox Loads 20x faster. So i agree it has glitches but it works… whoever said it doesnt work doesnt know what they are talking about. cant wait to recieve the book its for my girl
ordered mine – worked fine with 60 pages. I think it depends how much memory you have to be honest. We made a big collaborative book – I had 20 people work on it often several at a time from different PCs (all logged in under the one user name). We had some issues but nothing more than the odd irritation. The ability to collaborate like that was really great (and much better than their official collaboration tool which just allows other people to give you text and images)! I’ve also used Blurb very successfuly but since the Blurb tool resides on the PC you’re working on their is no ability to collaborate like this.
I built a 120 page book recently with inkubook.com for my Disney vacation and it worked great. My computer is over 2 years old and had no problems. I’m sure all the book companies constantly improve their applications and I noticed Dmitry commented in October of 2008. I built mine in August of 2009 and it is very fast. The slowest aspect of inkubook seems to be uploading images, but I have experienced slow photo uploads on all of the photo book sites. I would rate inkubook.com as one of the best and easiest to use. Plus I can share my book on Facebook which is very cool!