EMP - Printing Troubles

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After all of my hard grafting I was ready to send my work off to the printers! I had all of the feedback I needed and made all of the changes I needed to. I made sure that I had saved the document properly as a PDF and it was laid out all correctly.

I went to get printed my full book to size, double sided, on 140 gsm silk.

Two of my pop-out maps on 120 and 140 gsm silk (to test out folding with different thickness of paper.)

Two front covers full size with 5mm compensated spine, double sided, on 170 and 250 gsm silk ( for a thick cover)

[picture of bag]

I had my documents printed at a near by printers and they printed the whole load out. All print outs cost me a total of £22. I took the signal sheets away to cut out the holes in my design.

I took this back to the studio to start the process of cutting holes in my book. As I was scalping out the holes by hand, I made a mistake and cut one of the holes wrong.

[picture of the mistake]

So I took the one page back to the printers, unhappy that I may have to pay to have that signal spread printed again. I told them and they were very nice and offered of print it off for free! When I got this print back to the rest of my spreads it was very apparent that they were different colours. The spreads he had printed me first hand were blue, I hadn't noticed until I put the new spread next to them. I was very fed up at this point, knowing very well that I would have to go back to printers to complain. 

[pitture of colour difference]

I got to the printers and expressed my concern. They didn't really take to the news to well, so we both sat down and looked through the document to see if was the one printers or the documents fault. After a few attempts of printing dark green copies their printed out my full book out again for free in the correct shade of green.

[final prints]