Next print job

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

This morning I spent probably 2 hours on finalizing the print job for The Stranger. I’m not exactly sure why it took so long, but there were details that I missed and had to have resolved before signing the quote.

Our last print job I failed to see that the quote had glossy lamination on the cover, where we usually use a flat finish. Part of the problem, is the technical term is “glossy lay flat lamination”, so it has both flat and glossy in the description. I originally requested the cheaper “flat lam” and they took that and used glossy because it’s cheaper. And it lays flat. And I didn’t see that on the quote, so that’s what we ended up with. No harm done in the end.

The other problem is I had crossed off shrink-wrapping off the quote, as we didn’t want that for our WorkBooks this time around to save some money. However, they went ahead and did that for some reason, and the good news is we didn’t have to pay for that mistake.

Oh, and they couldn’t find my signed quote, and the quote I signed didn’t have the shrink-wrapping price on it anyway (though it was listed.) I actually was willing to pay half the difference on the wrapping, and they were worried that I wanted to take their half off the invoice. Reason why they were worried, is the invoice didn’t have the pricing for the shrink-wrapping on it in the first place, so I wasn’t paying anything for it to begin with! Eventually we got it all sorted out and realized we both needed to pay a little more attention to details the next time around.

So, as you can see, lots of problems with the last print job, and trying to be extra careful on this one, as it’s our main book (The Stranger.) In the end, I think it all worked out. I got the final quote, signed it, emailed it back and send the files.

So far this year, I’ve had at least 6 print jobs to handle. Books and DVD’s, but each needs a good attention to detail! Some of my troubles can be compared to the seasoned traveler who is the one who makes the mistakes because things are too familiar.