I'm sorry if this is a frequently asked question/you've answered this before, but could you recommend a good place to print artbooks like the ones you mentioned you were planning on printing? Most people I have asked have recommended printing overseas, but they have connections and I don't; other people get them printed in the US but they're either low quality or too expensive, so I don't know what to do D8 Thanks so much in advance!
unfortunately i’m not very experienced when it comes to printing full-color artbooks. when you’re printing artbooks, you need to make sure the paper you use is of good enough quality that the colors will show nicely, but the thing is i’ve never had (and probably will never have) printed full color artbooks. all the books i’ve printed are black and white comics, which means regular printer would suffice. for comics and this future sketchbook i’m planning on printing out, i’m using racomicsdirect. i’ve used ka-blam in the past for comic printing, but their quality and customer service has gone so far downhill that i’m not going to touch them ever again.
oversea printing is another way of doing things, but like you, i don’t have any connections outside the US as well, so we just gotta live with what we’ve got here. i, for one, don’t really like to deal with a middleman, probably because i’m quite a control freak when it comes to my own products, and i feel unsafe trusting my product at the hands of people i barely know. i like to work with the company directly so if there’s any issue i can just bother them myself.
