I've been thinking a lot about the MINX mess, and how it was that that the professionals could get it so wrong and be so oblivious to how and why, when customers and potential customers were trying to tell them so loudly in so many ways for so long, and something somebody said that I saw in my dowsing which I need to find and cite helps encapuslate ( Read more... )

Used drop cloth or post-party tablecloth? ( Your guess as good as mine )

(and how not to make a business call for good measure)

1. When your printer/prepress person says "what program was the file made in?" you should answer:
a) Windows!
b) Mac!
c) Acrobat
d) Word
e) Publisher
f) Printmaster Gold
g) I dunno! (Bonus points for this one if it's already been established that you made the file yourself ( Read more... )