Amateur Photographer Magazine

Bonusprint Large Photobook

Tuesday 11th August 2009

Barney Britton

Bonusprint Large Photobook
£29.99
(for standard 30 pages; up to 60 availalable (+£5 for printed jacket)
Dimensions: 30x30cm
Paper weight: 170gsm
Software: Bonusprint Digital Photo Service (Windows only)

Bonusprint offers a wide range of online digital printing services, including photobooks. The Bonusprint Large photobook is available in a linen or faux leather cover, in a choice of four colours. For an extra £5 it is also possible to create a photo cover that is printed on Kodak photo paper, which is the option I selected here.

Creating a photobook with Bonusprint's Digital Photo Service software can be a fairly frustrating process. If you decide to fine-tune the autofill layout, or create your own from scratch, little tick boxes appear alongside images that you've already used in the book. This is to prevent duplication, but when the software automatically saves your progress (which it does regularly), the tick boxes are wiped. Consequently, if you have a lot of images, getting them all on to the pages without duplication is a time-consuming process.

My Bonusprint photobook arrived on the fourth working day after I ordered it, and the quality of the binding is very good. I am less pleased with the printing, though, which shows a yellow cast on several pages. This is in contrast to the cover photograph, which is very contrasty and slightly blue. Worryingly, too, one image in the book has been printed at an inexplicably low resolution, and is heavily pixellated.

www.bonusprint.co.uk

See our article on Making a wedding album for advice on making an album and our list of the top ten albums

(Prices correct at time of going to press AP issue dated 11 July 2009)

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