Professional online printing - suggestions?

It's probably that they have folding machines setup for 4 and 6 - so stopping the machine to adjust for 5 folds isn't in their interest.

As they say with designing - think finishing at the beginning.

Sorry I can't help with your print dillema - but I hope I explained the reasoning behind it.

I'm curious why you insist on an online printer. Are there no local shops that can handle this?

That describes most printers these days.

Most printers can take payment and orders from all over the world.

And a lot are not even online.

Back in my day, (around 1988), we didn't have online printing companies.

We did an amazing thing. We "burned" the files we needed printed onto various types of storage disks. And then we sent (via FedEx) those disks to the print shop.

We used the telephone to keep in touch with the print shop.

If we needed proofs, the print shop might FedEx a sample to us. Or we would go on what was called a "Proof Check." This meant someone physically went to the print shop to check on how the job was being printed. Flew in an airplane and stayed in a hotel if necessary.

You young'uns have it too quick and too easy.

(And yes, we walked to school and carried hot rocks in our pockets to keep our hands warm.)

Well even when I started in the business in 2001 - every job bag contained a disc, or the revolutionary flash drive (that had to be returned).

Plotter proofs were either checked in house by the client, or sent via a courier, but we had our own "van man" to do most of the deliveries.

We didn't get internet access in our offices until about 2003, and we didn't communicate with clients via email - this was seen as "unprofessional", it was always in person or by telephone.

We would fax proof sheets though - and we couldn't take an ammendment by phone. We had to fax a "change request" sheet to the client. Who would fill it in.

Then we'd courier the changes to the client with a proof sheet. And they would fax the proof sheet back.

It really was simpler times.

Obsolete removable media nostalgia sense tingle.

Oh God, a "job bag"!

I haven't heard those words in years.

I wonder if today's young'uns even understand the term.

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I wonder if today's young'uns even understand the term.

Are you implying I am old?

If you know the term job bag, you are old.

Similarly...

If you remember dial phones, you are old.

If you remember busy signals on phones (no call waiting), you are old.

If you remember black and white television, you are old.

If you remember one-coat glue, you are old.

If you remember smoking on airplanes, you are old.

If you remember roll-down windows on cars, you are old.

If you remember the Good Humor truck, you are old.

If you remember American Bandstand, you are old.

If you remember television rabbit ears, you are old.

If you remember carbon paper, you are ancient! (I remember carbon paper.)

I think I still have a manual typewriter (not a typewriter manual) in my attic.

And I remember not only carbon paper (got a box of that stashed away someplace, too) and rotary phones, but party lines that had nothing to do with a good time.

Ok I'm 75% old!

Actually, Eugene, you're "old" if you remember any one of those things. It's like Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a Redneck if..." comments.

So are you senile if you only half-remember?

I'm not old ! Now get off my lawn!

So how have you been doing adjusting to the trifocals, the bald spot and the gray hair?