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I've just been dealing with a frustrated user. The abridged version...
He designed an album in PJ then exported PSDs.
He then flattened the PSDs and imported them into ALBUM_CO_X's software for ALBUM_CO_X to make.
That is frustrating for me on all sorts of levels - mostly because I tried (and failed) to convince ALBUM_CO_X not to waste time and money developing their own album planning tool... but that's a different story.
The album came back with a border around every page, about a quarter inch in from the edge. Somewhere between this client and ALBUM_CO_X's software the print files that ALBUM_CO_X received had extra white space inserted outside the trim line that Photojunction adds to each layout.
This client, a nice bloke, called ALBUM_CO_X and said, "What the heck?" and the company replied with, "It's Photojunction's fault".
Truth is it's probably the client's fault (I did tell him that - and explained why) but the most interesting thing I heard was the album company's reply to our (their) client's question: "Didn't you think to question a border around the edge of the page?"
ALBUM_CO_X replied, "No, do you know how many albums we do?"
Cheers, Danny
dannybay
on
December 8, 2009, 7:43 am
said:
Thanks for the comments. I don't mean to be too tough. Life's to short not to like the people you work with ( whether their coworkers or vendors...)!
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terrycavender
on
November 24, 2009, 2:18 am
said:
Right, I can almost guess who the album supplier was. Sad really, they still don't have a Mac version of their layout software ready, and all they would have had to do give Photounction their data! I am not shocked by their response, to the client, typical for them, that's why I am shifted to a new product line, and dropped them.
Terry
Terry
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aaronatbella
on
December 1, 2009, 1:43 am
said:
You have got to love customer service. It would make it hard to get repeat business treating people like that.
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dannybay
on
December 8, 2009, 1:43 am
said:
Thanks for the comments. I don't mean to be too tough. Life's to short not to like the people you work with ( whether their coworkers or vendors...)!
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