Head in hands

[ajr]

Our Print rep of 20yrs+ has asked me to do a wet proof off the digital and email it to his customer and copy him in !!!!!!!!!!

When will the fun ever stop!

A

 

[Greg_Firestone]

Our Print rep of 20yrs+ has asked me to do a wet proof off the digital and email it to his customer and copy him in !!!!!!!!!!
A

Brought a smile to my face. Thanks for the chuckle, ajr.

Greg

 

[gordo]

Our Print rep of 20yrs+ has asked me to do a wet proof off the digital and email it to his customer and copy him in !!!!!!!!!!

When will the fun ever stop!

A

Just tell your print rep that you cannot email a wet proof because liquids and electronics don't mix. It would fry the Internet.

Best gordo

 

[PACH]

Fantastic. I like it a LOT>

 

[abc]

reminds me of the time in a previous life when a salesman very proudly told our customer that we had done some excellent 'under colour retouching' on his job

 

[chevalier]

Did you include a blue line and the films? I had a customer tell me to "just tweak your camera to increase the dot in that screen" a few weeks ago. I figure I'll have somebody send me pasteup or film sometime soon.

 

[Lukas Engqvist]

I'm glad the time when customers faxed diskettes so that we could get the files is over

 

[HPC]

I'm glad the time when customers faxed diskettes so that we could get the files is over

But yet they still fax checks and expect us to proceed...

 

[oxburger]

My favorite "salesman-ism" is when we had an image of a book case with a bunch of books on it and the sales rep wanted me to move a book to the right so you could see the cover of the book to it's left.

 

[oxburger]

Or another time when we had to get films to the customer quickly, but still needed a waterproof made. He suggested to save time that we ship out the film and then do the waterproof later......Um, and what films do you suggest we use to make them?

 

[walterz]

Digital dots

Digital dots

In the early days of digital prepress a tour guide came through and announced that "you can even see the half-tone dots as he grabs a loupe and leans over to the monitor ..."

 

[Mark]

That's nothing we apparently have a magic perfector on our six unit press. It moves and prints 4 over 2 or 1 over 5 or even 4 over 4 (must use magic plates too).

 

[iamgemini]

Reminds me of the time when I was asked if our company could match Panasonic colors.

I just said 'yes' without correcting him.

 

[CD102]

Reminds me of the time when I was asked if our company could match Panasonic colors.

I just said 'yes' without correcting him.

Maybe he meant to say "Panatone?" Then again, it wasn't a printing forum where I saw someone add an extra "a" and syllable to Pantone so it isn't as if the person should have known better.

 

[onwsk8r]

I had a customer using PMS 186 watching over my shoulder as I made minor tweaks to her artwork, and she seemed to be getting angrier and angrier by the minute. I continued to be civil, unsure why she was getting so feisty. Finally we finished the tweaks and she said it was FINE.
As she walked out the door, I heard her grumble that only a MAN would name the color "red" as PMS!!

True story

 

[DuFrank]

In the old days we used to ask new employees to get a small bag of halftone dots. That way they learned to find their way around the building and all departments very quickly and it was great fun.

 

[cseas]

great stuff.
there should be a section in here just for this kinda stuff! love it.

we would have salesmen bring in a tour of clients and be explaining what is actually be done in graphics:

"here's where we do the lasering and ripping of film."

"here's where we make our waterless proofs."

"this is where we laser our plates."

 

[gordo]

great stuff.
there should be a section in here just for this kinda stuff! love it.

There kind of is. Check out RE: Print

Best, gordo

 

[Bill W]

Speaking of printing humor, here are the urls for two printing focused short movies that I hope some will find entertaining.

Off Register: Luscious from Off Register

Off Register: Fanatny Rod from Off Register

 

[jbh]

all new employees get an induction job of - separating the colours in the waste toner from our digital machines, we normally leave them at it for about 2 hours before letting them in on the joke...