Skin tones and how to make them beautiful and consistent when printing

If you are person who likes a matte finish but find that matte paper tends to distort skin tones here is your solution. Print on a gloss paper but then put a matte varnish on it. This way the skin tones will look natural but you will get the matte look you are going for.

Printers Beware

Now that I am on the other side of the printing industry and I have to call and get quotes I want them asap. My customers had an estimate within an hour usually within 15 minutes. I use different printer for different things. I am not going to stump a printer to the point that it takes 2 days to get back to me. If it takes that long to quote a job then you aren't the printer for me. 1. because if it is a job out of your realm then I don't want to work with you and 2. it's all about turn around. I have done your job but you probably don't know that and that's ok. But that isn't how you gain and keep business. My motto in life and in work life is get it done!

On a personal note GETTING SKUNKED

My husband and I have taken the week off me in between jobs and him to interview. About a week and a half ago I was out on the deck and saw something out of the corner of my eye and realized it isn't one of my cats for the door is shut. I just saw the tail and thought skunk but it was almost all white. Ok no big deal but then I was out on Sunday night and saw two of them frolicking in the yard. So of course I grab the laptop and start doing research. The next morning we were able to locate how they were getting in. So we took a piece of wood and wedged it under the fence. Well, this morning it was evident that they wanted to borrow under our garden and make a home. So we decided on chicken wire. We would staple it to the fence and dig it into the ground a bit. While I am filling up the holes that they had dug my husband was checking to make sure that the staple gun had staples and guess what happened he stapled the palm of his hand. So off the hospital for a tetanus shot. It was seriously the fastest I have ever gotten in and out of an emergency room it was a dream. So luckily we were able to get back and finish the job in the daylight. I really hope this works because getting skunked is no fun. If you have any skunk stories I would love to hear them.

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Job Searching

I recently put myself back on the market looking for a new position. Some of the things that I really liked about the company that I chose and chose me was their interviewing process. I had several interviews and had a chance to talk with all the people that I will be working closely with. This shows that the company cares about their current employees and give everyone the opportunity to pick someone they can work with. The other thing that freaked me out was a test. Then again if you say test I am a bit on edge anyway. However, I thought this was a killer way for the company to find out a bit about me and my skills and see my weaknesses and my strengths. The position I am going to be in wears alot of hats and they were ok with that individual having a strength in one area and a weakness in another. This way they were able to see that upfront. I really liked that they put this test together and I think all companies in the industry should do this more often, because alot of people are all talk. It also made me alittle more confident going in knowing what I have to bring to the table. If anyone has anything to add about this topic or feedback about a similar experience that would be great.

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Content who provides it and how

I have been working with this client yes the same one who quark document decided to peter out on my. It is a 32 page program for a weekend show. They have many advertisers and they come in many different way. That's ok but they have the advertisers send it directly to me and the advertisers pretty much make up their own specs. For example I have a half page landscape ad space hmmm I will sent them a 8.5x11 portrait yeah that will fit and look great!

So my biggest gripe over this is telling me to go to a website and dig through it looking for something a)that I don't have the name for b) do not know what it looks like and c)where the heck it is. If you are submitting content from a website there are 1 of two things you can do to make it a bit easier and cost efficient. 1) you can go download the pdf yourself and send it via email or 2) you can go to the link and copy that link into an email and send it. This will save everyone involve a lot of time.

To recap if you are submitting content organize it, bottom line.