Worse thing
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- gramme0
I had the most beautiful piece I've worked on to date get totally screwed up by the printer. The client didn't want to pay for new plates when the printer added a fat stroke around our small metallic type throughout the book, saying "your tiny type will never hold", even though we did the same exact thing with great results in the past. In bindery, when sending it through for a second pass they trimmed all of the books by about 1/4" too much, so now the type at the bottom of pages is dangerously close to the trim.
The print production manager didn't properly prepare their files (they were in charge of plate-ready art), so the color was off on 60% of the images. Then everything was printed with a varnished that somehow got tainted and made 30% of the images look milky.
At least that one wasn't my fault...