Aghhh wrong media in the printer

[Martin Cole]

quote John Wilson:

I’m sure i’m not the only one to do this? :yes1:

surely this is just as bad as reverse cutting a vinyl job by mistake?:no1:

😀

[Ian Johnston]

Remember wrapping a Jeep once , with a new type of cast that we were trying out. Put it all on heated it in , sent the job out,

Two weeks later i noticed a full roll of material in the print room, took a closer lokk to realise that it was the roll of cast,

It turned out the wrap had been printed on a cheap 3yr monomeric vinyl and laminated with the cast laminate!!!!!

7 yrs later that wrap is still on the same jeep, and looks every bit aswell as it did the day it was put on!!!!!

:lol1: :lol1:

[John Singh]

Had to do a job for my wife’s friend’s home
They wanted etch vinyl on windows in two bedrooms and living room
No Probs!

Ordered a full roll of Etch as I’d run out

Turned up to do the job
Applied the etch to the windows and thought this is taking me a lot longer than usual to do. Why’s the etch acting strangely. Anyway! got there in the end
Friend pleased as punch! had a coffee and left

About 3 weeks later I had a frost job to do and so I reached for the roll of etch and discovered that it was still a full roll
‘But it can’t be’ I said

I suddenly realised I had rushed out the door on that occasion in such haste that I picked up a roll of paint mask instead of the full roll of etch

We mentioned this to him and he said its looks fine and they’re happy to keep it that way

that was about a year ago and its still fine

[Denise Goodfellow]

I help out applying vinyl to foam boards when the shops busy and I have no embroidery to do.

I proudly showed of the panel i had applied the text to, look no bubbles I said….

My husband, peeled off the protecting clear film and all the lettering came off with it…. doh!

or my step sons error the other day, proudly showed of the t shirt he`d heat pressed to the customer who was doing a bungie jump in aid of a young girl…….. The t shirt said " craig jumps in add for katie"……. craig says. " very nice, but her name is alice" LOL

[Phill Fenton]

I once put some etch vinyl lettering on a window for a company called EKCO. I had just finished when the owner solemnly told me I had put it on upside down. Very funny says I (they usually say you’ve Spelt it wrong 🙄 ) except once I went outside to check, I discovered it actually was upside down 😕

[Phill Fenton]

Another time one of the lads in the unit opposite called in and asked to borrow a roll of toilet paper. I gave him a 100mm wide roll of application tape and he went away quite happy. He never did return the roll though 😕

[John Singh]

quote Phill Fenton:

Another time one of the lads in the unit opposite called in and asked to borrow a roll of toilet paper. I gave him a 100mm wide roll of application tape and he went away quite happy. He never did return the roll though 😕

Giving rise to the expression "it Sticks like……."

[David Rowland]

doing NHS job.. got in some low-cost vinyl to go-over existing print (no show thru) and was in matt. Somehow I picked up the wrong matt at the last moment and printed the roll, the material is not rated that well also.

[Ian Johnston]

Neighboring sign shop that i get on well with, printed 25 meters of clear,
told two of the staff the next day to back them with white and apply to 10No. 8×4 clear perspex panels.

arrived on site to fit them and took off the cover of the perspex to realise that they had used grey backed vinyl to back up the clear print!!!! 😀

[George Elsmore]

usual gag etched but never cut it in reverse for 10 windows 😥

[David Rowland]

it surprising how white a clear roll looks at times!

[Neil Speirs]

put my home telephone number on a customers van once…3ft wide 😳

[Harry Cleary]

What a bunch of klutz’s 🙄 Concentrate children, concentrate! 👿

[John Wilson]

quote Neil Speirs:

put my home telephone number on a customers van once…3ft wide 😳

You plonker Rodney :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

[David Rowland]

quote Harry Cleary:

What a bunch of klutz’s 🙄 Concentrate children, concentrate! 👿

u never painted anything incorrect?

[Harry Cleary]

quote Dave Rowland:

u never painted anything incorrect?

How very dare you! 😮

[Martin Cole]

Some real Corkers here, shame on the lot of you 😀

Not media related..but some years ago now. I had to fit some moulded letters onto a brickwork arch 30ft up in a cherry picker.
The job had to be done quickly for a customer of mine and no proof was signed off as it was pretty straight forward or so I thought.

The job took most of the day, we had rain, thunder, sun you name it. All looked good and was packing up when the owner turned up and said looks good except they had dropped the ‘c’ from the company name…didn’t I know or wasn’t I told 😮

I looked at him and laughed…then realised he was serious.

The 15ft paper template which was in a big ball in the back of the van was taped back together, back up we went and rearranged and refitted all but 3 of the letters.

A long day it turned out to be

[Mike Grant]

I just dropped a b0££0ck half an hour ago.
Had a very fussy customer in for a banner, and after sending about 4 proofs back and forth there was a big debate about the word "ITS" and "IT’S" they (committee) eventually decided it was "ITS".
Now I do my artworks in 2 different programs and corrected it in Composer but not in Corel. When I got the go ahead I ended up sending the printer the one from Corel which was wrong!!!!! 😕 🙄 (chat.)
The customer just came in and the first thing he wanted to see was the apostrophe or lack off. Now I hadn’t rolled out the banner until the customer just come to collect it.
The air turned a very dark shade of blue. (hot) (:) (:)
So now I have to order another 5 metre banner because of one little ‘ 👿
I knew I should have done it in vinyl! 😳

[Phill Fenton]

What was the context for the "its" – maybe the "committee" have got it wrong?

(They say the camel is really a horse designed by a committee 😕 )

[Mike Grant]

The wording was "Saving Gower for all its worth"
Gower being the first "Area of outstanding natural beauty"
It has been mass-debated at their committee meetings. 🙄

[Phill Fenton]

I’m afraid I think the committee have got it right. The meaning of the message changes if "its" become "it’s" (it is). in fact saying saying "for all it’s worth" is slightly derogatory, whereas saying "for all its worth" isn’t. They’re not being pedantic, there is an important change in meaning when the ‘ is included.

[David Rowland]

and ‘ is a foot mark!

see here

[Martin Pearson]

well they say you learn something new every day :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

[John Singh]

Had to do fascia sign in vinyl for customer who had another new shop
Same design as the other shop, just a little tweaking to get it to fit the new fascia
Simple! Bring up the file and recut

Attend site, install graphics and customer happy as Larry………..
until he noticed the phone number. Yep! Phone number was for the old shop
Doh! :you:

[John Wilson]

Thank god I’m not the only one then 🙂

[Mike Grant]

The banner saga continues…..the replacement banner they sent me was so badly printed compared to the first one, so I complained and now THEY are reprinting me another one. 🙄

[Neil Davey]

Quite a few years ago when I was painting signs I did one for a business called Cwmbran Tyre Centre. Simple enough but I left the ‘B’ out of Cwmbran!!
I delivered and fitted the sign stood back with the customer to big pats on the back and got paid.
It was a few days later when a Rep of his called that the mistake was pointed out.
Fortunately after a laugh and a bit of ribbing the sign was altered and everyone was happy.
Occupational hazard I told him 😳

[Mike Grant]

I remember a story I was told way back in the early 70’s, a signwriter I know painted a very large banner that went along a fence on a major road in front of a Pavilion. It read "AWAY IN A MANAGER" instead of "AWAY IN A MANGER" 😳

[Neil Davey]

quote Mike Grant:

I remember a story I was told way back in the early 70’s, a signwriter I know painted a very large banner that went along a fence on a major road in front of a Pavilion. It read “AWAY IN A MANAGER” instead of “AWAY IN A MANGER” 😳

😀 😀 😀

I’ve got a photo of my missing ‘B’ in work somewhere.
I’ll try and dig it out and post it. 😀

[Colin Crabb]

A new customer wanted Business cards to go with his newly wrapped van (Wrapped by someone else).

I took pictures with my phone camera to act as a design brief, produced a proof copy for the customer, printed 250 nice cards… Everyones happy, nice job, more work in future – Brilliant.

A couple of months later (yes months):

Customer: Ummm there’s a spelling mistake on my van… Comical Work, Not Commercial Work…
Me: Oh dear what a mistake! I’d never no such a thing!
Customer: Ummm my business cards are the same….

I had copied the photo’s a little toooooo closely 😮

[David Rowland]

could have a been a clown

[Colin Crabb]

heheh true!

[Mike Grant]

The banner saga continues……
The third banner arrived this morning and I eagerly unpacked it.
Words failed me, not only is the print still rubbish but they re-printed the banner with the mistake on it.
I GIVE UP! (chat.) (:) (hot) 🙄