Recent content by Jecclr2003

I've looked for months now (with NO results) and decided to go back to auto sales. The business around here in NE Ohio is just downright terrible. IF something long-term becomes available would I go back? Absolutely. I love this line of work.

I'll be persistant. Chance are I'll be selling cars again while also looking for another prepress/printing job. I'm willing to commute a decent amount for the "right" job/pay. As frustrating as it can be, I LOVE this line of work and am saddened to see what's happening to it. So far, I've...

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 :\

Well, add me to the pool of the laid off. I got my notice yesterday. Our business had SIGNIFIGANTLY dropped off in the past few months and chargable time was a rare thing.I can't blame the company for it, it was strictly a money issue. They've been around for 30 years and this was the first...

Well I was working as prepress for a pretty steady and successful commercial printer... until yesterday. I was laid off because our business tanked within the past couple months. It was like everyone became terrified to do any sort of business. With me being low man on the totem pole, I was...

Quark has never really played well with PDF files. It's just another strike against an old favorite of mine.

Your first sentence was the giveaway.... I rarely run across people who know how to use that program properly.

Short list....... COLOR! RGB DOES NOT EQUAL CMYK LINKS or lack thereof. Transpoarency issues. Some customers sure do like fancy effects that just won't rip right. MAking things spot colors that really aren't supposed to be. And the next time someone sends me a Corel Draw or Word doc, I'm going...

Sometimes that's just how it seems..... I'm low man on the totem pole at my place and it just seems like if the preroom manager is having a bad day, little issues become HUGE deals. He's got a big problem with communication He'll say, "I need this dieline file today" (My day lasts until 3:30...

In my case... I come from a design background so I can dumb it down enough to talk to them. But what amazes me is all these "artists" with their overpriced degrees have no concept of the most basic of design or publishing principles. There''s one I used to work with at a previous job and our...

Oh how I love explaining how the 4 color process works. It never seems to end either.....

That's kind of the set up we have here. There's 2 of us in prepress (not making that kind of money, although I wish I could!) and 5 pressmen (2 on 40" 5 color, 2 on 26" 5 color and a 2 color operator that bounces around where needed. I tend to touch the lion's share of the work with my partner...

Prepress side we get some classics.... After receiving an InDesign file with no links, so the file will print like crap.... "Why do you need the pictures? It looks fine on my screen here." Of course it does, YOU HAVE THE PICTURES!!!!!! Ugh... the hated "It looks fine on my screen"...

Thankfully we're doing fine. We're turning a profit, the jobs keep rolling in and we have a great reputation that helps us out a LOT. Our big contracts look to be uping how much the give us in the new year, so that'll be a nice touch.

Well, you can have all kind of requirements, but 9 times out of 10 they never get listened to. In a perfect world (HA!) this is what you should get with every job. • Disc with NATIVE Files as well as PDF. PDFs aren't a be all end all. I fix PDF files CONSTANTLY due to major errors. (Thank god...