A Tour of Kiss Wedding BooksThursday, October 15th, 2009
Utah Photographers take a tour of Kiss Wedding Books
Yesterday I had to opportunity with fellow Utah wedding photographers to tour the Kiss Wedding Books manufacturing plant. All Kiss albums are printed, bound and shipping from Salt Lake City, Utah. And the quality and the attention to detail was just amazing! From now on I will only be offering Kiss books in my wedding photography business.
It was noted that there is the chance for a generation of photographs to be lost because people store their photos on their computers or on the internet. Although seeing photographs online is convenient – if your computer crashes or a website goes out of business your photographs could be lost forever. What better way to enjoy your photographs – your memories – than in a fine crafted book? Books are timeless and can be shared for generations.
Wedding albums are assembled by hand, printed on photo paper
Kiss wedding books are assembled and crafted by hand. There are constant quality checks to make sure the photos are color accurate that there is no dust or particles trapped in the paper. They have a check list that goes with every wedding album to make sure nothing is overlooked or nothing gets through without constant supervision.
Kiss has a constant quality check for every step of the process
Some of the equipment is high tech- some of the printing and the binding. And then there are some old time presses that have technology centuries old:
A stack of wedding albums in a press
Currently Kiss Wedding Books are available in leather only. They are going to be announcing or releasing Soft Kisses – albums that are linen cover. They will be printed on the same quality photographic paper. Very exciting – and the photographs always look better than press printed books.
Kiss wedding albums use high quality leather for the covers
Other wedding albums can overwhelm brides and photographers with options. Kiss Wedding Albums are simple and elegant. I will be working on designing some sample albums so I can show them off. And of course I will have to get one in each color – even pink. Mmmmm, pink!
Leather covers are ready for new albums
Kiss Wedding Albums have been selling the same book for years. They are constantly looking and improving the binding, printing and creation techniques. And the customers love them! The return rate on books is less than 1% which is outstanding and virtually unheard of in other industries.
New verse old binding techniques
Tools used to create the leather covers for the wedding albums
If you are familiar with printing – you know about “safe zones” and “bleed” areas. I am able to design one album in 10″ by 10″ and I can have Kiss Wedding Books print that design as a 4×4, 8×8, 10×10, and 12×12. So if you want to upgrade your album to a larger size or you want to buy a second smaller albums for your mom – you can! And we don’t have to worry about redesigning anything.
Trimming the paper edges
Precision trimming is helping photographers keep most of their design in the book rather than trimmed away and discarded. Hooray for technology.
Wedding albums have a very fine margin designed for trimming
And shipping is a huge issue for wedding albums. Who wants to see quality albums destroyed by evil UPS minions? No one. So the package for Kiss’s albums is top notch. They have tested the package by throwing them off bridges and the books escape unharmed.
Shipping a kiss album - the packaging keeps it safe and sound
And the following photograph is the “Stack of Shame.” These are albums that had a flaw detected during the creation process. These books are left in a stack as a reminder of quality control. And from what I was told with the new techniques this stack is a lot smaller than it was in the past. And that is really cool to know that a company pays so much attention to detail and quality. I am excited to work with them to provide brides the best wedding albums to showcase their weddings’ memories for generations to come.
The Stack of Shame - a result of constant quality control
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