Update to the Easter event cards—another related group submitted a different 6×4 card, also 2,500 quantity, also wanting them ASAP today. *And* while that was running, an order came in for 1,000 double-sided copies of a map/guide sheet for the event!
Current status: resisting actually acting on the urge to knock some heads.
Huge annual public Easter event this weekend. Organizing church wanted 2,500 6×4 cards to distribute. Art was supposedly to be ready last week—wasn't submitted until late yesterday with the inquiry whether they could be ready for volunteers to start inserting into baggies THIS MORNING!
Told them they'd be lucky if I can even get the whole job printed and cut by end of today!
Ay yi yi - today's exponentially higher-than-usual prolificacy of blaring mistakes in people's print orders is going to be the end of me.
Dear external print shop customers: there's an explicit reason I enforce a $5 minimum charge for orders. Sorry, but no, I will not tally a handful of one- or two-dollar orders across a couple weeks to eventually meet that minimum.
Truly, that minimum reflects the time and effort to log in an order and prepare it for print. Defeats the purpose if I have to make that effort several times without compensation.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@leebennett/116286013388981174
Well nice - in the space of the end of yesterday and just an hour and a half this morning, I've plowed through about half the work already! #TalesFromThePrintShop
Jinkies! Nothing like nearly a dozen rapid-fire print order submissions from six different customers within less than an hour.
Customer tried to convey desired dimensions of something for me to print. Kept typing out things like 4.1/2x3, and I'm looking at it perplexed, like, "okay, 2x3 but what is the 4.1 part?"
Turns Out™ they were trying to tell me 4.5 x 3 (aka 4½ x 3).
I just learned this is actually a thing—not only that it *was* a thing, but still *is* a thing.
Maybe next time I tell you I won’t print your order because it’s clearly marked with a copyright notice prohibiting reproduction and you don’t have written authorization to copy it, I should mention my Canon machines most likely still do this.
OOHH!!!
I am SUCH a HAPPY CHAPPIE!!!!!
The nifty Fiery Go app I use on my phone to check the status of jobs running on my production copiers has an iPad version.
I have zero need for the app on my iPad which is seldom at work with me. BUT…I just remembered iPad apps will usually run on Macs with Silicon CPUs (M1, M2, etc.) if the developer activated it.
So I now have an awesome compact monitor instead of needing the full screen Fiery Command Workstation app!
So here's a Thing™ I just had to do:
I have a bunch of macOS aliases in my ~/Library/Favorites/ folder and a couple on my Desktop that point to various locations on my office's SMB-mounted network volume for quick access in convenient locations.
Eventually, it's going away and everything will move to OneDrive. So I'll get to re-map every one of those aliases to whatever new path OneDrive will create.
A. Lee Bennett Jr.