And when I say "rage-blackout-inducing frustration," you *really* don't want to know about my afternoon. I am amazed, after how badly I lost my shit, that I'm still employed.
Dawn: You're not fleeing. You're... moving at a brisk pace. Buffy: Quaintly referred to in some cultures as the Big Scaredy Run Away.
'Touched'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Steph L. - Mar 03, 2011 2:34:51 pm PST #16655 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
hippocampus - Mar 03, 2011 2:53:11 pm PST #16656 of 30000
not your mom's socks.
Steph, your printer has produced these magazines for a hella long time, right? And this thing just changed with this issue - and you've called them to say it's wrong... they should be able to go look at their back run and say "wow, yeah, this *is* different." And also? Checkboxes look uncheckable when they're filled with black.
Yes, there are prepress settings, but if they've done this forever for you, there are also eye settings, and blueline proof catches and the like - frankly, it sounds like newPerson at the printer changed a pdf standard when they turned on Overprint Preview (maybe? I'm not a printer, and don't play one on tv, and haven't done a presscheck in 10 years) OR they've upgraded their software and it's not as friendly to the PDF standard you have from them, and they know it's different and don't want to eat the reprint.
Steph L. - Mar 03, 2011 3:07:36 pm PST #16657 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Steph, your printer has produced these magazines for a hella long time, right?
Yes, although we switched from their web-fed press to digital printing back in May. That said, they've obviously printed everything correctly between May and now, so I can't quite believe that it's the digital printing process.
Yes, there are prepress settings,
I output everything exactly the way they asked us to, so if they changed their settings and didn't tell us, I'm going to go Wolverine on them.
frankly, it sounds like newPerson at the printer changed a pdf standard when they turned on Overprint Preview (maybe? I'm not a printer, and don't play one on tv, and haven't done a presscheck in 10 years) OR they've upgraded their software and it's not as friendly to the PDF standard you have from them, and they know it's different and don't want to eat the reprint.
Right?
Ginger - Mar 03, 2011 3:09:03 pm PST #16658 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Have either you or the printer upgraded any software, Steph? That's one place where fonts go wonky.
The printer tells us the production team turned on Overprint Preview in Acrobat and saw that the boxes would overprint black. (And then helpfully printed the entire press run.)
This is the smoking gun. Regardless of how it happened, they should have called you. They should eat it.
beekaytee - Mar 03, 2011 3:26:32 pm PST #16659 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Actually, Bonny, I just wanted your address, for non-stalkery reasons!
Stalkery reasons would be fine too!
I'm actually having rice pasta and it IS FG. It's DeBoles multi-grain penne. I had a talapia filet that wanted cooking, so I popped it in some Classico pasta sauce and made poor person's ciappino over noodles.
It's good!
Strix - Mar 03, 2011 3:32:05 pm PST #16660 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Can you e me your addy, or post it and immediately delete, doll?
beekaytee - Mar 03, 2011 3:52:03 pm PST #16661 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Erin, insent.
Aims - Mar 03, 2011 4:06:20 pm PST #16662 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Oh Jilli, love, I am so sorry about your Grandma Vida. We Miracleborns are thinking of you and your Dad and Pete. We love you sweetheart.
smonster - Mar 03, 2011 4:08:43 pm PST #16663 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Jilli, that is completely sucktastic. So sorry.
Strix - Mar 03, 2011 4:23:10 pm PST #16664 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Got it, bonny, and backflung. Grazie !