hey Rantin Al and forum-
just wanted to update you on the status of the CMYK and "gold" spot channel fiasco....
we received proofs from the printer yesterday, and all i can say is i'm not very happy. first of all, they took forever to actually get started on the work. secondly, when i sent them the separated channels per your wonderful instructions, they mentioned that they could not work with them (AGH!!), and thirdly, i could have pulled my hair out when i sent them the font as a zip file and they didn't know what a zip file was! (i had to walk them through the zip conversion!)
it's a scary thought.
i personally think at that point, there was nothing else that could have been done on my part besides sitting with them at the computer and laying out the material myself.
we are now taking the proof back for changes, and i am deeply concerned as to why exactly they had to go into the PS files and re-type all the text as it looks totally different than what i submitted and there are misspellings! granted, there is a lot of text (names of board members, etc) and i should have probably used Pagemaker (next time!), but how can a commercial printer not be able to work with the files and have to re-type everything??! it's not even my work now!
the front of the invitation (the one i had posted with the lovely gold color) is yellow, and i am DEMANDING they change it to gold as they told me they could.
i think i have concluded that printers work on their own time and their own deadlines and are somewhat lazy. it's quite disappointing.
thanks to everyone for their help...atleast i learned a lot.
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just wanted to update you on the status of the CMYK and "gold" spot channel fiasco....
we received proofs from the printer yesterday, and all i can say is i'm not very happy. first of all, they took forever to actually get started on the work. secondly, when i sent them the separated channels per your wonderful instructions, they mentioned that they could not work with them (AGH!!), and thirdly, i could have pulled my hair out when i sent them the font as a zip file and they didn't know what a zip file was! (i had to walk them through the zip conversion!)
it's a scary thought.
i personally think at that point, there was nothing else that could have been done on my part besides sitting with them at the computer and laying out the material myself.
we are now taking the proof back for changes, and i am deeply concerned as to why exactly they had to go into the PS files and re-type all the text as it looks totally different than what i submitted and there are misspellings! granted, there is a lot of text (names of board members, etc) and i should have probably used Pagemaker (next time!), but how can a commercial printer not be able to work with the files and have to re-type everything??! it's not even my work now!
the front of the invitation (the one i had posted with the lovely gold color) is yellow, and i am DEMANDING they change it to gold as they told me they could.
i think i have concluded that printers work on their own time and their own deadlines and are somewhat lazy. it's quite disappointing.
thanks to everyone for their help...atleast i learned a lot.
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