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Mark · #1 (**permalink**) 05-16-2005, 06:24 AM

Okay here is a new level of fun: Color correcting images for a brochure, customer was here for first round. Yada yada change this, lighten that, etc. After customer gets proof there are just a few more corrections. Oh and on the picture on pg 3, just log on to this web site and match the color to the way the web page looks!!!!!!???? I asked the salesman what kind of monitor the customer has so I could see what she sees. (I think he may actually ask!) I should tell him to have his customer turn up the contrast on her monitor so our proofs come out "snappier". :roll:

Barks · #2 (**permalink**) 05-16-2005, 07:45 AM

A customer of ours once said upon looking at our contract proofs 'the image looks different on my monitor', precious :lol:

A few years ago when using a HP750 to produce proofs for mock ups only, a different client got hold of one and said the classic 'it looks a bit grainy but it's OK for colour'.

:lol:

seetomtype · #3 (**permalink**) 05-16-2005, 10:10 AM

It's good to hear there are still plenty of professional designers out there :roll:

I have had designers ask me to come over to their office with a pms book
to match a swatch to their monitor, go to a web site to make a pms
match on my monitor, and my personal favorite, come to their office with
an external cd burner to make a copy of their 5 meg file. :roll:
All get a "No sir/ma'am. It doesn't work that way."

Sometimes I think they put graphics degrees in boxes of cereal :?

Sparky · #4 (**permalink**) 05-16-2005, 06:36 PM

No tom, some of us remember the matchbook cover that had the "draw this picture" ad in them and you too could be an artist!, well I think designers are the ones that didn't make it :roll:

ajr · #5 (**permalink**) 05-16-2005, 11:41 PM

We used to do a brochure for a bedroom furniture company. They used to send us in bits of furniture (cupboard doors, sets of draws etc) to match for a colour!!!

Andy

ronmatt · #6 (**permalink**) 05-17-2005, 01:06 AM

I used to work for a company in L.A. that did album covers and related items ( Does anyone remember album covers?) anyway, there was this egotripper art director for a major record company who could be found any evening at the Palms restaurant in Beverly Hills, with her entourage of lackys. She insisted on checking proofs there, with the aid of candlelite.She would actually tell us to [ take out some red, or add some cyan, etc.] It was so dark in there that it would take a few minutes for our eyes to adjust when we entered the room. We didn't do any correction when we got back. Just produced film 'as is'. Point is, most of these ****weed designers don't have a clue as to what they're looking at no matter what we show them.

Mjetz · #7 (**permalink**) 05-17-2005, 04:34 AM

I had a customer once tell me that his monitor displayed 2400 dpi at 100% and it true Pantone matched color, mind you this was about 5 years ago.

I have had designer put together a job with flat tints and print it out on her old wax thermal printer that created all kinds of dithers and patterns to produce the colors. When I made the Matchprint from the film she says, "What happened to the patterns? I liked those." So, I spent the next eight hours creating the same effect. Luckily the customer was willing to pay for it.

Last, but not least. I had a designer thet designer the whole job in Quark 3.3 printed out on her laser 300 dpi printer, then created paste-ups from the laser prints for use to shoot with the camera and separate in the traditional way. She did this because she did trust imagesetters, they weren't high enough resolution and the colors wouldn't match the inks.

shonisko · #8 (**permalink**) 05-17-2005, 07:00 AM

This so just happened. The supervisor wanted to know why to thing were in different spots on two different tiffs, so, we will call her "linda" , Linda pulled out her metal ruller and started, i cant even type it without laughing

and measured her screen on both of them.

SlaveToTheMan · #9 (**permalink**) 05-17-2005, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ajr

We used to do a brochure for a bedroom furniture company. They used to send us in bits of furniture (cupboard doors, sets of draws etc) to match for a colour!!!

Yeah, we do frequent 4/1 postcards for a hoity-toity clothing place. They started sending fabric pieces for us to pick CMYK builds from, and so far they haven't kicked a job yet!

Sparky · #10 (**permalink**) 05-17-2005, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by SlaveToTheMan

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Originally Posted by ajr

We used to do a brochure for a bedroom furniture company. They used to send us in bits of furniture (cupboard doors, sets of draws etc) to match for a colour!!!

Yeah, we do frequent 4/1 postcards for a hoity-toity clothing place. They started sending fabric pieces for us to pick CMYK builds from, and so far they haven't kicked a job yet!

In the '70s and '80s we did catalog work for Bullocks department stores (high class s**t) we'd get boxes and boxes of clothes samples and yes you guessed it

ops: lingerie. Funny thing was that when the boxes were returned to the store they kept calling back saying that there were several pair of panties missing 8O strange, we had no women working for us at the time 8O