How I feel trying to use dischage and understand it

[cvreeland]

Most of that seemed plausible except the MS Paint part.

[GraphicDisorder]

Most of that seemed plausible except the MS Paint part.

We use the oven to cure our prints, and we flash cure with a stove top inverted. 

[Mr Tees!!]

....I just do what my customers THINK I do. Hit the MAGIC BUTTON.

..and here you guys are buying expensive presses and dryers and stuff. Whatta buncha dumbasses....

[JBLUE]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mr Tees nailed it.

[GraphicDisorder]

....I just do what my customers THINK I do. Hit the MAGIC BUTTON.

..and here you guys are buying expensive presses and dryers and stuff. Whatta buncha dumbasses....

You might be on to something, just hit print. 

[cvreeland]

I had a client ask me, at a press check, as we stood right by the press "Does the screen just see the youth shirts and get smaller?"

[brandon]

I had a client ask me, at a press check, as we stood right by the press "Does the screen just see the youth shirts and get smaller?"

hahahaha that just made my day. that is awesome. people never cease to amaze me. ever

[GraphicDisorder]

I had a client ask me, at a press check, as we stood right by the press "Does the screen just see the youth shirts and get smaller?"

Wait yours doesn't do that?

[Screened Gear]

Wait you claim to be a designer and don't have a pantone book. What else don't you have photoshop?

 
We use MS Paint.  Export to BMP.  We sep it with our vinyl program, then print.  We take that print and hand color the velum's, expose with the sun.  If its dark out, we use my headlights of my truck. 

Well that's not as bad as I would have guessed. I have worked with people that tell me they have a degree in design and then sent me a Power point presentation. Graphic Designer = I have a computer.

[ebscreen]

Yeah, we had a Photoshop cowboy today. Tight deadline for a kids fishing derby that we're essentially
donating the shirts for.

She had snagged a picture of a sturgeon off the google, someone's painting, completely unflexing  on arial bold,
layout, spacing, drop shadows, etc, ugh.  Eventually okayed our design and it blows hers out of the water.

The proliferation of the personal computer may not be such a good thing after all.

[ZooCity]

I think it's about to go backwards a little and we'll maybe see less of this "I pirated creative suite, I can just make the art".  Seems like all the newer computers are touch screen/tablet/keyboard thingies or just really big phones and not so capable of running the software. 

[Gilligan]

Well that's not as bad as I would have guessed. I have worked with people that tell me they have a degree in design and then sent me a Power point presentation. Graphic Designer = I have a computer.

A guy in the Disc Golf world asked the wife for some help in designing some TROPHY discs for the tournament series.  He was a graphic artist and sent her the Power Point files that he had been working on because the Disc manufacture was having "problems" using his "file".

No crap huh?

This guy is one of the most respected people behind the disc golf scene in this series.

My wife helped out and knocked out the design WAY into the night because it was way past too late to ask for help.  Then he ended up completely ditching her design and never said a word.  We showed up at the championships and didn't see her design and was like WTF?!

Of course it was (objectively) a WAY better design she did. 

Just crazy.

[JBLUE]

To get a design one must leave a deposit in this neighborhood.

[GraphicDisorder]

To get a design one must leave a deposit in this neighborhood.

I hear that, to get us to do anything but quote a customer we must be paid in full up front before we even put you on our calendar.  Another something that most do differently than us.  This goes for anything we offer, design, printing, business cards, flyers, and so on. 

[Gilligan]

To get a design one must leave a deposit in this neighborhood.

She was doing it for free.  It's a pretty close community and it's ALL volunteers and there is ZERO money made by anyone in charge of these things.  All about growing the sport.  Individual events make money for some TD's (Tournament Directors) but the championships are put on by collecting $2 bucks from each player's entry into all the "qualifying" events throughout the year.