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I think you're right, v3. Especially given the fact that I'll probably incur more expense on these books when I hire another printer to tear off the covers on my current batch of books and replace them. The reason: the books were printed on an Indigo press, which uses inks that almost cure immediately, and we ended up having to laminate the covers. The covers were printed with very heavy coverage (mostly rich black) on Mohawk Superfine. The printer used an offline UV coat to protect them, but the covers still scratched and cracked very easily. This is because the Indigo ink just sits on an uncoated page, and dries before it can sink it, unlike litho inks. Useful information to know early in the process while there's still time for me to change the design, not AFTER everything's been printed.
So with all these covers already printed and coated, the only viable option was to coat them again with a matte laminate. The problem there is that it no longer felt like Superfine, and the lamination collects fingerprints like nobody's business. Looks cheap. And on top of that, the hand-binding was really sloppy. Had a big thick lip on either side of the spine.
The printer gave me a discount in light of all that, but it was a small favor since I was left with books that are kind of embarrassing.