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Involving locking album designers, manufacturers and printers in a room and not letting any of them out until they decide which units of measurement and colour profiles we are all using!

I could have banged my head off a wall several times today. Album design software that will only output in inches, an album manufacturer that will only accept files sized correctly..............yes you guessed it, in mm!

Then I had one album design in sRGB, then another in CMYK and just to top it off, back to sRGB again.

And even when I asked the album software to output to 8x8 (inches) it managed to do 8.35! :bang:

Right you lot! We work in mm. It's 40 years since we supposedly went metric and I really cannot be doing with 11/16th of an inch, get with it and stop mucking about in inches!

And as for colour profiles? I really don't give a flying fig if your very expensive printer is cmyk. My printer and that of DSCL and Graphi are all sRGB so get a box that converts cmyk to sRGB and stop expecting your paying customer to be having to convert all their files just for you.!

I've had to write a load of blooming actions today just to output the right size with the right colour profile for the right people.

JUST SORT IT OUT WILL YOU?
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OR YOU DON'T GET OUT!!!:clap:
 
Why do you have to mention inches and mm when there are men frequenting these forums?
 
And then one wanted JPEG and the other PSD..............lol

There's always the joke about women parking cars Tom, we park so close because we keep getting told that a certain distance is 10 inches ;)
 
Some of us oldies can work in both :)

However Alison I completely agree with you. It's Bl**dy infuriating having to keep checking which measure or profile you should be using.
 
6 hours it took me to import the images, do the design and output at a size with the same aspect ratio so at least I could resize without adding an unintentional warp!

Most of that 6 hours was spent trying every option of the design template and every output option until I found the way round it. Then having found a way round it and having written the resizing action I then found that they wanted cmyk and psd! So another action was written. Finally got it onto a DVD and in the post before the post office shut!

At least the second was easier because I had already encountered all the "problems" with the first and so another action was written! Prints this time and ordered online so let's see how many bits are chopped off when I get them back ;)
 
AliB said:
6 hours it took me to import the images, do the design and output at a size with the same aspect ratio so at least I could resize without adding an unintentional warp!

Most of that 6 hours was spent trying every option of the design template and every output option until I found the way round it. Then having found a way round it and having written the resizing action I then found that they wanted cmyk and psd! So another action was written. Finally got it onto a DVD and in the post before the post office shut!

At least the second was easier because I had already encountered all the "problems" with the first and so another action was written! Prints this time and ordered online so let's see how many bits are chopped off when I get them back ;)
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Argh! What a nightmare!

AliB said:
so let's see how many bits are chopped off when I get them back ;)
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This is the thing I hate most about using online/highstreet printers ....especially if I don't want a standard size print. For that reason I bought myself a canon printer for smaller stuff and take anything important/large to a local friendly portrait studio...he may not be 'the' cheapest but he takes the time to get it all right.
 
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