I look back at my graduate school days at Hopkins, and all I can remember is the wonderful people, one-of-a-kind experience, and overall, such a great time.
What? I wept in my mind during that time?
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oh yeah.
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Printing.
We had a top notch (in my mind) Epson color printer that did a wonderful job printing. I used to curse at it, but it did print out 60+ pieces in full color in few nights for the graduate show at the end.
Of course, we are not supposed to expect that a printout will be an exact duplicate of the screen view. However, I did spend many hours erasing "smudges" and "random lines" that did not appear on screen, but appeared on the printout. grrr.
It happened again. No big surprise. But it was a surprise! What do you mean there is an unwanted line on my printout!! It's not on the screen!
Top image is the printout
Bottom image is the screenshot
Oh yeah.
So I 'think' the printer didn't like the fact that the montage was a true montage of cmyk, rgb, and greyscale tiffs composed in Illustrator. I made the fix, and hopefully we won't see that blasted line again.
Lessons learned:
1. Choose one mode.
2. Always do a test print.
3. Don't get upset at people at Kinko's.
