Confessions of a Print Junkie.

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Permalink Reply by Dave Merli on July 18, 2008 at 11:06am

Hola - My name is Davey and I have been a Printjunkie addict for over 18 years.... I am off to sniff the ink!

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Permalink Reply by Bob Dourlain on July 18, 2008 at 11:10am

My name is Bob. I have been a print Junkie since 1969 when my father pied a three column galley of lead and I had to fix it. Does anyone out there know what I am talking about? or am I showing my age!!!!

I need to get out of the business!

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Permalink Reply by Dave Merli on July 18, 2008 at 11:18am

Sounds like you might have been working out of a California Job Case?

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Permalink Reply by Bob Dourlain on July 18, 2008 at 11:24am

no it was all slugs at the time, but I did know the case at one point.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Markuson on July 18, 2008 at 11:38am

LEAD? no lead in my copiers that I know of...

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Permalink Reply by Joe Webb on July 30, 2008 at 9:34pm

Oh my gosh Bob, you are just a baby, I am the old guy going back to 1968 (holy cow that is 40 years....HELP) with a summer job at St. Regis now IP. Went home from work smelling like FLORIDA PERFUME (Caustic acids from the digester in Pulp Mill) later promoted to plugger on winder. Short stint with the USMC then career in print starts with Moore 1972, saved by Duplex then this thing called business owner working half days
7 a.m. to 7 p.m. that is a half day right??? Tomorrow is another day and off to work we go.

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Permalink Reply by Lammy on August 1, 2008 at 11:35am

That had to be about the worst. least it was slugs and not loose type. Now THAT would have sucked. I pied a package of new type once. Took me all night to distribute it. . . and it was only lc characters!

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Permalink Reply by Jeff "Lumpy" Winterbottom on July 30, 2008 at 1:58am

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Graphic Communication major, double concentrations: Print Management and Design Reproduction Technology. 1998 grad. We were a very tight group and used to meet in local watering holes for "mandatory meetings" where we'd talk about printing, printing, printing and drinking. I've never lost the addiction after 16+ years in the industry.

I am TOTALLY the guy who proof reads the menus at every restaurant I go to. I explain what I do to my normal friends. I see the glaze in their eyes about three words in: "The solid ink density on the dry trap second pass was tripping out my spectrophotometer...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" It is so funny. Then I tell them "Wlk into a grocery store and look around. Everything you see in there is a product, down to the little stickers on my Fuji Apples, is what I do." They get that.

I even have a CMYK registration tattoo on my right ankle. I AM a true printer geek.

I love it

Jeff

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Permalink Reply by Stacey Gallagher on July 30, 2008 at 8:36am

Jeff - i am so glad to know that i'm not the only one who notices restaurant menu errors...too funny. to make things worse i used to work in hospitaliity where i helped design and layout new menus...once they left my hands and got into the GM's it would all go to crap. :)

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Permalink Reply by Jennie Doran on July 30, 2008 at 8:15am

Hi, My name is Jennie. I've been a Print Junkie since about 1992. Second semester in college is when I discovered Graphic Design and Printing. My first gig was an unpaid internship for the school's Fine Arts Center. I used to supply camera-ready art separations on boards. Boards, people! I even worked with amberlith (or was it rubylith??) a couple of times. Wow, I am kind of old. I am glad I got to see some of the older methods though. By the time I graduated that stuff was pretty much gone from the real world of printing. Good thing they also taught us how to use Macs!!

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Permalink Reply by Kelly Cooper on July 30, 2008 at 9:45am

LOL! Well fellow junkies, I've only been in this since 2004, but let me tell you - I'm hooked! I proofread everything I see - restaurant menus (takeout menus are the worst!), letters from my daughter's school (and they teach her how to read?), literally everything, I can't help myself. Now, I can't buy any product without inspecting the print, I even passed on a bottle of shampoo because the registration was so off I couldn't buy it. It's a long road ahead and I only see my addiction getting worse. I may need an intervention.....

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Permalink Reply by Mark H. Clabaugh on July 30, 2008 at 3:15pm

I actually have PMS 185 in my blood stream.
:)
Mark C.

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