Tired of it.....

[oxburger]

I'm tired of designers in their weathered jeans, moussed up hair and little square tortoise shell glasses and their cute little Prius' or Mini Coopers sending in files that are built wrong.

"I want to use PMS 136 in my file, so instead of adding it to the color palette, I think I'll build it using a different spot or out of CMYK. Then I'll spend a half hour adding all these cute little notes to the margin that explain that the green you see actually prints orange and that the purple prints black. Then to really cap it off, I'll send images of t-shirts that print in blue, but I'll make one RGB, one Grayscale and one CMYK. After that, I'll send you the job and explain that it's hot but then leave for vacation so I can sit around and drink Appletini's or smoke $50 cigars with all my little geeky friends while you pull your hair out trying to get ahold of me"

Have a nice day!

[kaiserwilhelm]

Uhmm, you left out that you will fix all of this for free, because that is just what the "market bears".

[TIG]

I think you both summed it up well, you are both responsible for my laughter today

Thanks!!

TIG

[rbailleu]

I saw a proposal from a design firm that had a quote for all the design work and the printing. and then an extra $1500 to make sure it got printed correctly. properly called a project management fee. and I have to compete with the design cost and printing cost, but because we have a press we should just eat the project management fee. all things being equal.

[rbailleu]

oooohhh yeah just remembered another one. we were selling ads for a book we printed and someone requested a 10% ad agency discount. when we got the file it was a publisher pdf.

[TIG]

Here's a good one .........

"Hey that doesn't match my screen" or "That's to yellow".........to which under my breath I say..Compared to what?????

Good Day!

[MikeG]

what, no duo-tone that's supposed to bleed but doesn't? Consider yourself lucky

[Craig]

But yet somehow it's our fault the designer was to caught up in their tree hugging, animal loving everything is sunshine and lollipops world to get the file right the first time. So therefor we get to eat the entire re-print cost. Even though the customer signed off on the proof!!!!!!!

God life is grand!

[LoweringTheBar]

You guys need to lighten up. I'm sure this client will pay his bill in at least 120 days... if he's still in business.

When it comes to clients and salesmen, I've pretty much been reduced to one of the people in the old Twilight Zone episode where everyone has to be nice to the little spoiled brat kid because if they weren't he'd wish them into the corn field.

Here's how a typical conversation will go with a sales rep in our crappy economy, where every print shop in town is underbidding their competition by slashing the salaries of their employees...

"You say you want that 300pg book proofed by tomorrow morning, huh? Well, of course it's not a problem. I'd be happy to do it, by golly, and thanks for giving me something to do tonight instead of having dinner with my family! Have I mentioned how great you look today, and how much I appreciate the fact that you're the reason I have a job and can put food on the table? What's that, you say you've been having an affair with my wife? Well, who am I to judge. I just hope she didn't disappoint you, because your happiness is all that matters to me! Jeepers, look at me, jabbering about my problems instead of working like a dog on your job. Sorry... really, sorry for everything! "

AAAAAAARRRRHHHHH! I hate this industry!

[Jecclr2003]

Here's a good one .........

"Hey that doesn't match my screen" or "That's to yellow".........to which under my breath I say..Compared to what?????

Good Day!

The bane of prepress people everywhere "but that's not how it looks on my screen!!!!"

What do you mean that neon orange will look different in "4 color"?

I could go on and on.... and frankly... I miss hearing it. I want to get bak into a printing company doing what I do best :\