iPhoto book printing now in Australia!

[maestrokev]

Finally, iPhoto book printing is available in Oz:

http://www.apple.com/au/ilife/iphoto/printproducts.html#books

 

[theq]

Apple printed photobooks and calendars now available in Australia and New Zealand

The following is an email from Apple Australia. Mac users down under have been waiting years to get the same features as U.S. citizens in Apple software. At least we can now order Photobooks through iPhoto:

iPhoto '08* Turning photos into treasures - Printed Photobooks and Calendars NOW available in Australia and New Zealand.

Apple now offers the ability to create stunningly beautiful hardcover photo books, glossy calendars, professional cards and prints from your own photo library delivered direct to your door.

Turning your photos into treasured memories couldn’t be easier in iPhoto - choose an Apple-designed theme, drop in your photos, customise your text, and click 'Buy'.

Books - Creating a photo book in iPhoto is as easy as choosing an Apple-designed theme, dropping in your photos, and adding text. You can choose from a range of styles and sizes, including hardcover, softcover, and wire-bound, complete with customised dust jacket and foil stamped covers.
Calendars - Choose a colourful Apple-designed template and make your photos a different poster for every month.
Cards - From a catalog of styles in folding greeting cards or postcards. Use the built-in tools to resize, rotate, and crop photos, or add effects.
Prints - Just click to send your photo out for professional color printing, up to 50-by-76-centimetre poster size.

Summary

• Availability: All offerings are available for order today.
• Further information: http://www.apple.com/au/ilife/iphoto/#prints
• Pricing (excluding delivery):
• Picture Book - from A$39.99 inc GST
• Calendars - from A$26.99 inc GST
• Postcards from A$1.99 inc GST and Greeting Cards from A$2.69 inc GST
• Prints from A$0.29 inc GST each
• High-res images: Available on request

To access the services, customers will need to download the latest iPhoto software update. http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/iphoto712.html

* If you have an older system that does not support iLife '08, you can use iPhoto from an older version of iLife. iLIfe '04, '05 and '06 will continued to be supported. If you upgrade to iLife '08, you'll find that iPhoto offers a host of new book themes, double-sided pages, and many new layout options that help make your books look better than ever. This latest version of iPhoto also lets you create your own custom greeting cards and photo calendars.

John Marx
Public Relations Executive
Apple Pty Ltd

Let's hope we can get movies in iTunes next.

 

[chatoyer]

And in NZ as well, which is sweet - have ordered a bunch of prints already.

 

[maestrokev]

And in NZ as well, which is sweet - have ordered a bunch of prints already.

Which online places have you been using thus far to print? Love to hear how the iPhoto quality turns out. I've been using Snapfish Australia.

 

[Bern]

This is very groovy. Now at last I can get all those pics I have hidden on dvd's printed into books.

 

[chatoyer]

Which online places have you been using thus far to print? Love to hear how the iPhoto quality turns out. I've been using Snapfish Australia.

Actually haven't used any online service just yet - we've just been posting our photos to a website for rellies to view. Will let you know, though, re: Apple quality. I assume they've just contracted an outfit in Auckland to do it.

 

[Jonnyfive]

I live in Canada and I ordered my wedding albums from Apple after I designed them in iphoto and they looked great!

 

[maestrokev]

I live in Canada and I ordered my wedding albums from Apple after I designed them in iphoto and they looked great!

I'm looking for feedback on the Aus/NZ printing. My iPhoto printing in Canada has always been fantastic but since Aus/NZ is new I want to make sure the quality is there before I place a large order.

 

[LibbyT]

iPhoto book, printed size?

Finally, iPhoto book printing is available in Oz:

http://www.apple.com/au/ilife/iphoto/printproducts.html#books

Before finalising my images for the book, I need to know the exact size of
the pages in the printed book (11'' x 8.5", hardcover). Are the pages in
the printed book this exact size, or at the recommended ratio of 4 x 3, which
would give a full page image size of 11" x 8.25"? Also, is any of the
image lost to the gutter between pages, or to trimming during the printing
of the book?

How long is the turnaround time in Oz?

 

[chatoyer]

Apologies - could have posted this sooner. The prints from Apple NZ (or whomever they contract out to) were delivered about 8 or 9 days after I ordered them. For the most part, they're fine, but the overall quality has more to do with the camera than the printing, I would have thought. No basis of comparison in this case as we've not printed them elsewhere.

I think on a few photos I had cropped them in iPhoto before submitting, but when we got them they were cropped more than I had originally set. Hard to explain, and that's not a good explanation. More than likely something I did incorrectly.

 

[maestrokev]

Anyone else used the AUS service and has printed in US/Canada before? I brought a photobook I printed in Canada (printed in US) and will order a photobook here next month. My NAmerican photobook was identical to the iPhoto layout and colours were extremely close so I'm hoping the AUS version will be the same after operating for a couple of months.

 

[maestrokev]

Update

It turns out both Canadian and Australian iPhoto books are printed in Medford, Oregon.

I ordered 1 in each country to send to relatives. Both were shipped the next day following submission. The Australian one was 33% more expensive than the identical Canadian order. The Canadian order also shipped Fedex with tracking number while the Australian one was regular air mail.

The Canadian order took 1 week to arrive while the Australian order took 2 weeks to arrive.