lol! well, peter, i guess a duckhead would be better than a fickhead... lol.
tan. (i am a lady, really, i am, i rarely swear in person! my trailer trash family does enough of that for me! ) -----Original Message----- From: Peter J. Alling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 15 May 2004 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ever had one of those days...... I wanted to say what's wrong with being a duckhead but it's not so funny now that I read it... TMP wrote: >Bloody d*ckheads... > >tan. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, 15 May 2004 1:51 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Ever had one of those days...... > > >...... where you wonder if you are actually speaking the same language as >the local minilab operators? > >I called at my local Blacks store to pick up some "gift" items, a mousemat >and a t-shirts, which I had ordered. >I had dropped off a digital file, sized to the aspect ratio of the mousemat >(approx 5:4) and of sufficient resolution to print at 8x10. The t-shirt uses >the same ratio. >I glanced at the t-shirt, in its packet, and thought "the quality of that >picture doesn't look too good" and made a mental not to bother ordering >t-shirts >again. Then the girl opened up the package with the mousemat to show me how >it looked. Same impression. Then I looked again. The top and bottom of the >image had been cut off and there was a part of the mat where there was no >transfer (top and bottom, of course!). I pointed this out and noticed that >the same cropping had occured on the t-shirt. Oh yes, she replied. That's >how the 4x6 we printed turned out. It wouldn't fit on the paper, so we had >to crop it. 4x6? I queried. Why did you print a 4x6? What do they do with >it? >Oh, they scan it to put on the t-shirt, she says. > >Can anyone see where this is leading? > >I provide a nice big digital file. They print it nice and small at an >aspect >ratio which no longer fits on the item I'm ordering. The place which puts >the design on the "thing" then scans said print and ~enlarges it~ back to >the size it originally was but with a bit missing and at much diminished >quality. > >Then they wonder why I refuse the goods and also refuse to pay for the two >4x6s I didn't ask for which they printed !! >I also tried, in vain, to explain that if in future they wish to print a >4x6 then they should at least print it so that the height is 4" and leave >white space at the left and right as the image is going to be transferred >to an item with a white background. I couldn't make her understand this >concept >at all. <sigh> > >Sorry about the rant. Just felt I had to get it off my chest and I knew >you'd >all understand <g> > >Wendy > > > > > >
