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    Printer turns down work

    "If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today." thomas sowell
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    Printer turns down work

    I just did exactly that....... Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Gresham, Oregon, said they simply want the freedom to live by the tenets of their faith. “We just want the government to tolerate and accept differences of opinion, so we can continue to follow our...
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    Printer turns down work

    The business owner has every right to refuse work based on his set of values, even if these do not align with the majority of opinion.
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    The Prepress Opportunity

    looks fine on the screen, there's nothing to fix
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    Explosive rant

    Vendors, printers, designers etc we are all on the same bus, our seating arrangement may be slightly different but we all are here to champion print, with large companies a manager cannot be omnipresent to react to every instance expectation is not met, so Garry i welcome your participation in...
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    Explosive rant

    Not sure i agree with venting on social media where the subject of the complaint is not present to defend themselves, we all suffer from frustration but jeez i feel for those providing service (or in this case not by the sounds of things) or supplies to the print industry trying to eek out a...
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    Vetting Employees

    Above all else make sure you get their pronoun right
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    Prepress Proof Approval Via Email - Consumer End (Noob)

    My 2 cents, print is all about putting an ink film on a substrate, the measure of which is density, colour is a prepress constraint and measured in % so unless you give the printer what he needs to meet your expectation you will be running around in cicles
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    creative cloud subscription a ripoff

    Adobe had little choice but to go with a subscription model, their main competitor ended up being torrent sites where everyone was ripping off their software, i believe Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 was the most downloaded (illegally) product of all time
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    C100+M100 dark purple prints blue from online trade printer doing dye sub. job

    The key phrase i the OP is "Dye sub", there are many variables associated with this process (These include substrates, sublimation paper selection, pressing time, temperature and pressure.) more so than offset or digital print, i suggest you visit the shop and get an understanding of their...
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    How do I explain to a client that a CMYK value is not an actual color?

    Seeing is believing, designers are visual people trying to explain colour theory is like trying to explain a tesseract, the easiest way i found is in a meeting i grabbed a whiteboard marker and coloured in a piece on their newspaper and a sheet of 80 gsm paper from their photocopier, the visual...
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    Trail periods

    Looking to understand what is a reasonable time period to test colour management software such as GMG or Xerox Match Assure, the latter i have been told has a trail period of 10 days which seems too short to me, your thoughts and/or experience would be most welcome
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    Print Sales

    Our sales manager was going to shout lunch as his staff managed to get a contract for an anual report, 200gsm cover 100 gsm gloss stock, embossing, PMS colours, perfect bound, a real work of art............the only fly in the ointment is we have a Goss newspaper press
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    A New Opportunity

    Europe is committing suicide by Cameron and Merkel, I cannot for the life of me understand how its citizens sit idle by and allow this to go on, on the positive side I know a printer in Belgium via this forum who landed a contract to print the holy books (Quran) so every cloud silver lining and...
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    Process Colors

    K as in Kelvin, absolute black, depending on your inkset offcourse but we run CMYK on our coldset and KCMY on our heatset press
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    A New Opportunity

    I feel 62 years old (dog years that is)
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    Career Switch

    Lol, this fondly reminds me of our labourer who hailed from the lovely Pacific Islands and loved fish heads and Taro, there was always a rush on in the shop to use the loo before he did
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    Career Switch

    Despite everything I love this trade and hope I can see it through to retirement, would I encourage my kids to follow - absolutely not, would I change career path if I could go back in time - again absolutely not
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    The Expert Response

    You have met my wife then Gordo.....
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    Tech Support

    Reminds me of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, techsupport = Willie Lomam

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