really you want more?

[cwiser]

The customer with the tickets wanted to help me lay the tickets out. I said sure no problem. I brought him back into the production area and we went over to the table were I had a mat ready to go. He placed the tickets on the top and bottom rows and then looked at me and said he really had no clue where to go next. Huh imagine that? So I took over and started placing them and moving them and arranging and re-arranging and re-arranging and so on and so on... Well about half way through he remembered that he had MORE tickets! I kindly suggested that there may be too many if we added anymore, I mean we only had 142 at that time and the piece was only 6 feet long!

The Byron piece was deja vue all over again! This customer, a different customer, had a box that must have been 24"x24"x24" FULL of tickets and passes. I helped him narrow it down to the hundred or so that we did use but again he kept wanting to add more to it. I talked with him more about it and found out that he really didn't have any wall space to accomodate such a large piece so he settled on this 60"x40" monster!

Some people just have a hard time visualizing their ideas I suppose.

 

[FrameMakers]

Yea Chris they do. They could have been so cool done in several frames instead of a overwhelming mass.

When we take on one of these jobs, we ask the customer to separate the stuff into 3 categories. Must have, Would like to have and could be skipped if the design looks better with out it.

Ain't retail fun, and to think you want to go out on your own.

Dave

 

[danny boy]

wow, quite a fan thats for sure.

 

[Shayla]

Hi. Have you ever had any trouble with thermally printed tickets darkening? I know that heat mounting can do so, and have avoided it. I also warn people with such tickets not to hang them where sunlight will hit them. Granted, this is the default way to treat all art, but these tickets especially so. My guess is that you've dealt with a lot of them and I'm curious about your approach. Bye.

 

[stephen34]

Hi. Have you ever had any trouble with thermally printed tickets darkening? I know that heat mounting can do so, and have avoided it. I also warn people with such tickets not to hang them where sunlight will hit them. Granted, this is the default way to treat all art, but these tickets especially so. My guess is that you've dealt with a lot of them and I'm curious about your approach. Bye.

A few years ago on Vancouver Island I had an office services/graphic design shop and a customer asked to have her monthly bus pass laminated as it was quite flimsy. Turned out to be heat sensitive - went completely black! Abject grovelling at the bus station led to them replacing it. Whew.

 

[Baer Charlton]

You send them off to get high quality photocopy done on the same kind of card stock..... it's a pain for them... until you point out that the two hours they took to do it (we ignore that fact that they also went to lunch during that time), I would have gladly done for them @$120 + $20 fuel surcharge +$10 traffic surcharge + $10 for walking home to get my car surcharge.

"Wow! You saved so much you can splurge on that Museum Glass you wanted."

I think I'm getting to old to do those gazillion ticket jobs. And at 40x60.... I know I'm too old. Great job Chris..... you can have my share.

 

[cwiser]

You send them off to get high quality photocopy done on the same kind of card stock..... it's a pain for them... until you point out that the two hours they took to do it (we ignore that fact that they also went to lunch during that time), I would have gladly done for them @$120 + $20 fuel surcharge +$10 traffic surcharge + $10 for walking home to get my car surcharge.

"Wow! You saved so much you can splurge on that Museum Glass you wanted."

I think I'm getting to old to do those gazillion ticket jobs. And at 40x60.... I know I'm too old. Great job Chris..... you can have my share.

Baer,

I thought you had made a mistake with your fuel surcharge but I see that was yesterdays pricing. LOL fuel's a killer these days! I bought a sandwhich at Quizno's the other day and the cashier said that'll be .18 plus a $9 fuel surcharge...sounded about right to me

Seriously I'll be just fine if I never see those two again.