jessica31876
05-16-2010, 04:49 PM
We went first thing in the morning to get announcements printed at Office Depot. They tell us their color is down but we can print b.w. Well no my daughter wanted her school colors in her announcements so they suggest we go to Staples. Staples can do it but they want alot more then Office Depot and they tell me they do not do full color bleed so they could not do the announcements I had designed anyhow. Spent a long time there while the lady tried to "fix" my announcements. Ummm the back is a pattern the front has a large border with the announcement info in the middle of the paper. I told her I dont mind trimming but Office Depot was going to trim them for me!! So we figure we will just go back to Office Depot tomorrow. So then we go to get grad photos printed and I guess I did not check carefully what I was doing because her grad photo was supposed to look like this(printed in 4x6):
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x159/jessica31876/gradpictureweb.jpg
Only it cut off about 1 inch of the bottom (basically all that was left of the "Class of 2010" was the 010 so the Class of 2 was cut off). I made it when I was kinda tired and didnt double check the size to make sure it would do ok on a 4x6 photo. So they did not look good needless to say. So I was thinking I was going to have to go home and figure out what I did wrong but the guy at walmart was able to fix it sort of so it ended up looking like this:
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x159/jessica31876/gradpicture2.jpg
It doesnt look bad but my daughter saw the first set and got all upset and just stormed off before he said he could fix it. And I felt like it was my fault because I should have done a practice print first (although the computer DID NOT let you proof to see what you were ordering before ordering it)
Anyhow after all of that by the time I left I was ready to cry. I was trying to make her grad pictures and announcements special and different then all the other 800 or so kids in her graduating class and instead I feel like I just ruined them and should have just let her go ahead and order the ones from Herff Jones like all her friends did.
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x159/jessica31876/gradpictureweb.jpg
Only it cut off about 1 inch of the bottom (basically all that was left of the "Class of 2010" was the 010 so the Class of 2 was cut off). I made it when I was kinda tired and didnt double check the size to make sure it would do ok on a 4x6 photo. So they did not look good needless to say. So I was thinking I was going to have to go home and figure out what I did wrong but the guy at walmart was able to fix it sort of so it ended up looking like this:
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x159/jessica31876/gradpicture2.jpg
It doesnt look bad but my daughter saw the first set and got all upset and just stormed off before he said he could fix it. And I felt like it was my fault because I should have done a practice print first (although the computer DID NOT let you proof to see what you were ordering before ordering it)
Anyhow after all of that by the time I left I was ready to cry. I was trying to make her grad pictures and announcements special and different then all the other 800 or so kids in her graduating class and instead I feel like I just ruined them and should have just let her go ahead and order the ones from Herff Jones like all her friends did.