Quote from: Slappy on September 24, 2014, 04:33:03 PM

Quote from: Joe on September 24, 2014, 02:43:23 PM

Quote from: Farabomb on September 24, 2014, 02:13:40 PMI have a feeling plates would slip right out of your hand. I haven't had an issue in years. I take my time and I have to handload plates.

I rarely output plates but when I do I always get cut.

Who do ya think you are - the Most Interesting Man in the World? 

 

Well I didn't think I was but I guess that shows otherwise.

The worst cut I got was from a shipsheet. Three times in one day, right across my upper lip.

Quote from: Slappy on September 24, 2014, 04:33:03 PM

Quote from: Joe on September 24, 2014, 02:43:23 PM

Quote from: Farabomb on September 24, 2014, 02:13:40 PMI have a feeling plates would slip right out of your hand. I haven't had an issue in years. I take my time and I have to handload plates.

I rarely output plates but when I do I always get cut.

Who do ya think you are - the Most Interesting Man in the World? 

Beautiful.

Quote from: DigitalCrapShoveler on September 24, 2014, 11:08:12 AMGoddamn, I hate making plates. I hate putting proofs together as well. All I have done for 2 solid weeks. Plus output, tours, answering stupid questions... they say there is no such thing as a stupid question. I beg to differ.

Tours? They have YOU doing TOURS? Inconceivable!

Quote from: Possum on September 25, 2014, 09:03:43 AM

Quote from: DigitalCrapShoveler on September 24, 2014, 11:08:12 AMGoddamn, I hate making plates. I hate putting proofs together as well. All I have done for 2 solid weeks. Plus output, tours, answering stupid questions... they say there is no such thing as a stupid question. I beg to differ.

Tours? They have YOU doing TOURS? Inconceivable!

I'm actually quite charming.

It's best to keep me far, far away from everyone. Much safer that way.

Quote from: Farabomb on September 25, 2014, 09:23:08 AMIt's best to keep me far, far away from everyone. Much safer that way.

Giving a tour and putting a Sales Puke in place are too totally different situations. To explain... showing a bunch of kids the printing process and giving them tips on finding a new line of work is my small way of contributing to not only their lives, but my job. If I can change one of them, just one into taking the other path not down printing, I have done a service.

Customers are a little different. I use the time to talk shit, albeit in a humorous tone, about how Prepress is a thankless job and most customers, not them, of course   are complete idiots and make us do their work. They all nod, and chuckle, but I KNOW they think about what I said. I deliver it well and make my presence something they remember. My department in general reflects my outer voice, so in essence, giving tours can be very beneficial to me if seen from a certain perspective.

Any other time, I make you seriously consider stepping into my domain. Is it important enough to walk through my door and confront me on it? If you have a valid reason for interrupting me and imposing yourself ahead of others that respect the time I have, or just their place in line, I will be somewhat respectful. However, if you don't have a valid reason, you will feel like you just got hit upside the head with a brick. It's a choice, and a very important one you need to make. I WILL make you pay.

I hadn't thought of kids. I was thinking more of the Rotary Club coming off an open-bar lunch. I've given a few tours myself. Unfortunately, one school class picked our brains on screen printing and then started doing the screen printing for their school, so that was a tour that lost us business. We haven't done one since.

Quote from: Possum on September 25, 2014, 09:57:37 AMI hadn't thought of kids. I was thinking more of the Rotary Club coming off an open-bar lunch. I've given a few tours myself. Unfortunately, one school class picked our brains on screen printing and then started doing the screen printing for their school, so that was a tour that lost us business. We haven't done one since.

I don't reveal trade secrets... EVER. It is what keeps me one step ahead and employed. I will give advice, and/or answer commonly asked questions... but NEVER the total process. For one, it's a tour, not a training seminar and two, I don't have the time nor the patience to do it. I can handle about 30 minutes of human interaction and then I need to vomit.

Printing is like making sausage.... never show them how it is made.

There are so many variables in screen printing that it's unreal, so it didn't seem to present a danger. Just watching what's being done doesn't tell you how to coat a screen, how to expose it, or all the minutiae of the press. However.... almost any one can get a little training from a materials supplier in that trade, and if you aren't picky about how it looks, almost anyone can put out a one-color print on a manual press with a little practice. I guess they bought their own equipment and got some training. Have no idea what their products look like, but I can imagine.

Hey, hey, I got a new one.

Setting up addresses files for printing envelopes.

Then assisting in the printing of said envelopes.

 

The prepress umbrella just keeps expanding.

We're so dead I'd love some prepress work. I've been sorting and cleaning backups and doing updates for over a week. When my brain breaks from that I try and learn more about pitstop.


Of course the job that was sitting for 3 weeks showed up yesterday... at 8PM. I love sitting for 8 hours just waiting to go home just to have to work form home. Added bonus was the email in the morning at 7:30 asking when to 2 lots of 30k W/T will be done. Your PO said PM, not AM ya lying bastards.