More Gaffs

[Hicarrumba]

Finished a poster last week for Twelfth night, which featured a local 16th century house, with a really crooked fireplace and crooked old furniture. I sent it to print and the printer came back and scorned that I had obviously used photoshop and that it would look a mess in print:

I had used photoshop, I did a multilayer image of the Principles in different positions (twelfth night if you didnt know has the same people playing different characters) to show their different characters interacting.
I asked the designer from the print shop what parts were obvious after a long hard look I could only find one tiny mistake where a foot was over the foot of the same person.

He said 'Ah this is why we always suggest using our design services, you obviously shopped in the fireplace, it looks out of proportion, everything else is fine, all the people are at least looking at you at the same time, and you got good depth of field on the ships through the window'

I said 'Well thanks for all the compliments, the fireplace is real, probably the only real part of it, as for being amateur, when was the last time you saw tall ships in York and if you didn't notice the same bloke in 3 costumes you need to go to specsavers!'

They are doing us 3 posters on A0 for free :top:

[munchycarrot]

What cheek, did you ask for his opinion when you placed your order? :rofl: Good one John

[Hicarrumba]

What cheek, did you ask for his opinion when you placed your order? :rofl: Good one John

Actually yes I did ask for them to make sure everything was OK as we have not used this printer before, and at the time he was a arrogant 'A' but they are cheap (even cheaper now), the designer that works there said he would look after it, but they only print high quality images, yadda yadda, sales banter for 'If you don't know what you are doing, we can do it all for an over inflated price'

Anyway upshot is that he got his ass chewed off by his boss, cos he had me on conference, I think he was showing off to the boss about what he thought he had spotted, and was hoping that we would let them do the work, so when I reeled off what I did, the boss came on the line and apologized, and offered the free prints. :top:

[Sarah]

Some printing places are too up themselves and want every penny they can have out of u. I had a few canvases printed earlier this month, from a fine art place originally quoted £25 for a3, when I went in with the file she tried to "increase the tonal range" of my b&w, which I had done a little work on, she had a play and then showed me, all the blacks had lost detail and the white had too. If I wanted it to look like that I would have done it myself. I told her that I preferred my way her response..."well I am a professional, and I think your image would look a lot better, it would be a little foolish to print a dull image"

i declined again, saying I was a pro photographer and I had printed it many times before and liked the result I wanted it printing as it was.

she then tried to charge me about £230 for 3 a3 canvases! and said the £25 was only for the printing onto canvas..... not what she said when I said how much would it cost to get a canvas print like that and pointed to the one on the well... her response £25!


So yeh.... I think your printer thought by slating your work they could tweak it and make some £ out of it! good u got the prints for free though!

[Hicarrumba]

Did you not try 'The printer people'? I just had a canvass done (unstretched) £29 delivered it was A2 sized, and as the chap says, we print what you want, not what we think is best. (obviously not the people I am talking about above)

[Sarah]

Needed the canvases quickly needed to be a local job. Wont be using them again, also the print "cracked" when stretched! even the cheapy one I got done thru work was better quality!:shocked: