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In french, "Au revoir" means "à vous revoir", which can be translated in "to see you again" : you say "au revoir" to people that you know you will see again ! (but if you plan to never see people again, you say "Adieu") In german, "Auf wiedersehen" can also be translated in "to see (you) again"...

It was my Sunday pleasure! Bye Gordo, it was fun ;-)

In France : jour férié Can be civil days: January 1st, May 1st (Labour day), May 8th (end of WW II), July 14th (prise de la Bastille), November 11th (end of WW I), or religious (catholic) days: Easter, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Assumption Day, All Saints' Day and Christmas. (or perhaps I...

Like Detective Columbo ?

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Back in the time, when I was working in a printshop, I had try to explain this difference to my colleagues… But how could you explain that difference to somebody who doesn't want to understand, arguing that the ink pots that I called "cyan" where marked "Quadri Blue" by the manufacturer ??? And...

I gave up almost 13 years ago, tired of trying to explain the basics of printing to so called "designers" with years of "experience" who even do not know what is a bleed, or a margin, or made their pages with Photoshop or Publisher and use crappy jpeg logos!!! And exhausted of having to fix all...

In my (almost) 20 years of experience in pre-press, I have often seen people for whom their 30 years of experience were 30 years repeating the same mistakes…

Reminds me another cartoon: http://stoufetjeanouf.canalblog.com/archives/2012/10/15/25341039.html Coward 1- What's this oaf's print job?! People are red like tomatoes! 2- It is no more an organization chart with photographs, it is a meeting of the Alcoholics Anonymous! 3- I'll say two words to...

Welcome back Gordo :) Hope you had good holydays.

Or because we cheer you on to be sure that you will come back.

Often, the communication is limited to: "You have to understand that I do this job since 30 years and it is not you who will teach me how to do it"... So, in fact, both are on the same page, but not on the same side of the page!

Perhaps because the previous guy is a moron and his job is crap... so the next guy is trying to fix the butcher job? Or perhaps because the next guy believes that the previous guy is a moron and his job is crap... so he is trying to fix what he believes to be a butcher job? Or perhaps the next...

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Don't come back to the hammer after having emptied the jar if you are attached to your fingers.

... and a 12 gauge !

Cost won with the help of incompetence.

Printers don't solve problems by letting/asking people and designers do a job that they don't know how to do, mostly using a color profile not adapted to the printing ! on the contrary they create much more problems, because the printers are the only guys who knows which kind of press they use...

In France, since 5-10 years, most of the shops refuse cheques, because they have had too much bouncing cheques. And some also don't accept banknotes more than 50 or 100 euros, because the risk of having a forged bill. Since 1992 in France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_card

And designers making their RVB to CMYK conversions with Photoshop's default profile, most of the time because they don't know what is a color profile and what it does. And printers asking for CMYK pictures without letting know which color profile has to be used. And, worst, printers who say that...