Scribus Friendly Print Shops

Here you can recommend and shortly describe a print shop that has proved to be reliable and Scribus/PDF Friendly.

Please provide a short description of the printer and what they do (sheetfed, litho offset, etc). In particular, if you can find a link to their specifications, please provide it here. It would also be extremely useful to know if they accept PDF/X-3 jobs, CMYK jobs, or both.

The official Scribus documentation, maintained on docs.scribus.net, already includes some Scribus friendly printers.

Lulu

Read what Scribus users reported on the mailing list:

• http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-November/013916.html
• http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-November/013917.html
• http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-November/013944.html

Short description:
Lulu is an internet based POD (Print On Demand) service, owned by Bob Young (Red Hat) and located in Morrisville, NC, USA.

Pros:

• No setup costs
• Can handle PDF produced with Scribus very well
• Excellent color print quality
• They will also market your publications for you

Cons:

• Hard cover is currently limited to 6"x9"
• Soft cover" isn't like the softcover you'd get at a supermarket — it's thicker than magazine covers, but less than a penguin cover and, reportedly, there are some book oriented organizations which simply will not stock or shelve or whatever, such prints (apparently for this reason).