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We used to say that we were "bleeding edge" but decided the weekly trips to the blood bank and the slippery floors around here we're worth it . . so now we just say that we keep up with the current productive technology . . . . its a lot easier to clean the floor and table around here now . . . :)

We just put a legend on the file . . . see attached file

We used to print LoTac clings for point of sale. they wanted a tear pad of coupons at the bottom and the photo/ad to be UV coated . . .the pads two sided tape didn't stick to the UV so we had to mask where the pads when and then run them through the UV, then peel the "masks" off, then apply the...

reminds me of a job where the "designer" had this fancy die cut pattern on the front and then a poem on the back of the sheet . . . she was very surprised when we pointed out that about 50% of the poem would be missing . . .

Yeppp thats right a 50,000 - thats not a typo . . . Open in new window

Generally we build the dieline in Illy then place it on a layer in Indesign and build the job around the die line . . . then we send two files to the plateroom one that is the die only and the other is the art. They both get stepped around using, in our case, Signa and send the resulting file to...

If you can remember hand developing a 3M "R" plate with the red lacquer . . . Oh it smelled so good . . . .

Oh how I miss the smell of RA developer and rubylith in the morning

Wow . . a dot stretcher. . . never had one of those but wasn't there a thread about that recently . .. but we were looking for that paper stretcher and edge gluer the other day

Methinks that Gordo left out the last frame whose caption would be "Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord split ya"

You can't send them down the street to the competitors printshop for the box of halftone dots we lent them last month . . .

your name sez it all . . .

Ok . . lets see how old this group is . . . how many remember the IBM Composer (a typewriter that justified type), and how many have run a linotype

Folding proofs for evey job . . . used to call them bluelines back in the day . . . . I want to know why people insist on proofreading by email . .. for example .. on page 56 the word Skill is misspelled . this is in a book full of text . . . they don't tell you how its misspelled just that...

looks to me that your drill is plugging up and not allowing the waste to exit at the top . . . clean out the inside of your drills regularly!

We had one and I think there is a distributor in Wisconsin . . . but give them an email at their home office and they dan tell you who is close . . . we choose to just suffer through it and figure it out . ..

I'll have to go back and look again . . . short term memory loss is common at our age . . . .

funny . . I haven't seen anything from him lately . . .

yeeeepppppp