Week 6

Monday 30/3, session 10

This morning I wanted to print off my booklet and get my last pieces of advice before taking it off to the printer.
I went through all the processes to print booklet but my booklet came out on a4 paper and so was very small - funnily enough many people thought my booklet actually looked much better at this mini size - it was cute a pocketable.
I managed (after some help from Skye) to get it to print on a3 and so made up the booklet to show Fay.
When I got my turn, I was really pleased to hear that there were only a few very minor changes for me to make to my booklet - a bit of kerning, capital letter here, a comma there, and a widow fix. So I made those edits and then went through the process of making sure all my linked files were tiffs before exporting it into a pdf.

When I was about to head to Fullstop printers I got a call from Skye who was there already and she was letting me know that they had been told they were the last group whose booklets would be ready for pickup today. I was guttered and now had to think about a back up printer. We went to The Big Picture but they suggested our booklets may not be ready until tomorrow afternoon. So I rang Ink Digital and asked them what their turn-around time was. They said an hour so we headed there to do our printing.
I chose to print mine on gloss paper as I thought it appropriate to the romance of the booklet.
I used 210gsm gloss for my cover and 128gsm gloss for my inside pages.
Cost: $22.50

When I got my booklet, I got it out to check over and was disappointed to find that on my map page the colour had gone a bit peachy. I asked the staff why it had done that and they blamed my file and that "the machine just prints the file as it is given" which I don't agree with as I had been very careful to use CMYK files, tiff files, and it definitely didn't match but they didn't seem interested in solving my problem, so I took my booklet - and my business - I won't be using them again. Interestingly enough, Katie's colours in general hadn't come out as she had expected so next time I think it would be worth doing colour testing at the bureau.
It was definitely and eye-opening experience getting my booklet professionally printed. Next time I will try to be much more organised so I'm not under time pressure.