Saturday, June 12, 2010

Printing Dilemmas

So I finally Got my images to look how I'd like them to look and went to print them at school.

I had an epiphany that day with regards to how I'm going to print my images too. I was originally a little disappointed that I couldn't afford to print my image as a large enough window sticker, and I was worrying that even the largest poster size at most print shops was too small. So I'd come to the conclusion that It would be best to print the images out individually on A4 photo paper and then arrange them together with a gap. It was then that I realized that printing on OHP paper would also give me the transparency that I'd been wanting.

Now, I know that things are never supposed to work out when you're printing, so I was prepared for the fact that my images were completely the wrong colour on the properly calibrated monitors, and for the fact that the school computers run so slow that it takes the best part of half an hour just to alter a couple of colours, and I was prepared for my images to rebel and not allow me to change some of them.

I wasn't really prepared for a paper crisis though. Apparently inkjet ohp paper used to be really easy to get, but just since I needed it for my project, everyone decided to discontinue their stock.
What's worse is that I phoned up Stationery Warehouse and asked if they had any INKJET (with a capital INKJET) ohp paper, to which they say they had plenty. So I went all the way over there, and two employees double checked that it was the right stuff before selling it to me. I took it back to school and guess what? It wasn't inkjet ohp paper at all, but the prints had a lovely runny quality to them. Too bad they'd never dry. So I took the paper all the way back and waited 20 minutes for the supervisor to finish her coffee so that I could get a refund.
In short, don't go to Stationery Warehouse. They are dicks.

Anyways, in the end I ordered a pack of the real stuff from Office Max, simply because the guy who served me so so enthusiastic and eager to help. So now I have to wait until Monday morning to print. Lets pray nothing else goes wrong.

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