Bizarre little circle
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- ian0
Ah sorted, just went to a different paper merchant who seems to deal with designers on short runs. Ordered the paper and await the costs.
It was strange asking the printer to recommend a finisher. They eventually did come back to us with a recommendation, got costs but went with the one we had sourced.
On another note I sent a job out yesterday, cover + 6 page fold out + 8 page insert saddle stitched. Printer rang to say it was impossible that the fold out had to be in the centre spread not on the outside and it couldn't be done. Rang another printer and they said no problems. Rang first printer back and they said, oh, ok sure we can do it, disregard what we first said.
Now thats bizarre. Im worried about what I'll get back off them.
- sounds as bad as kinkoslackofcolor
- Tell em to fuck off. Printers only seem to print what they want when they want.
MrMackem
- jimzyk0
cunts. thats what they are.
- capn_ron0
Time for a new print rep. That person just blew you off and didn't care. Most print reps I know would have just said what do you need for paper and here is the finishers info.
- wordsarepictures0
Sounds like a shit printer, if they want the business they should help you out.
- +1 - Especially if they do all your existing print work! I'd hint that you're considering going elsewhere if they're like that.Nairn
- ian0
Thats a long fucking post. Apologies.
- ian
We are redoing our stationery and getting everything foiled, no print. So we talk to a printer and ask them if its a job they'd do or if we should just talk to a finisher to handle the foiling. The printer (who we deal with on the bulk of our jobs) says deal direct with the finisher so I says ok, recommend one, but at first he just point blank refused.
I contact a finisher and get costs on foiling everything, ok, no worries.
I contact the paper suppliers in the uk (from whom we purchased all the stock for our last brochure) and they say that they now have a distributer in Ireland, go to them. So I do, but the irish distributer only sells to printers and they can't give me a quote. I can get samples but no prices and the finisher we are going to use deals directly with printers so doesn't deal with paper merchants.
So I've gotta contact the printer again, who isn't going to handle the job to order the paper, that'll get marked up so we can go to the finisher to do the job.