Wow, I really did not think that printing a few projects this semester was going to be such a hassle. For the first project, I asked them to print my magazine layout and mount it. They printed it, and sold me poster board to paste it on myself. It started to look sloppy, so I had to get creative and spend an hour hot gluing popscicle sticks around the edge to make it go along with the theme of my pumpkin magazine. It was so time consuming, and I think that a properly mounded display would have looked more proffessional.
For the instabook project I learned to use the copier in the library. I feel like I was a lot more succesfful that on this project with printing.
The next project that I took to FedEx was the poster. As you can see from my previous blog posts, I printed 2 different posters. I went to a different FedEx this time. Unfortunately, they couldn't mount it there for me. The guy was super nice! His name was Justin. Justin pulled up my posters for me on dropbox and emailed the another fedex for me to pick up when I get there. They said that it would be done when I drove there. Mind you, I was already running late to get to my P.R. Writing class, so I was expecting them to be ready for me. NOPE! It took them about 15 minutes after I got there to print them, and mounth them. Then they had to cut the edges, and the guy cut off my white boarder on my one poster. I was so annoyed that it took so long, but all of the workers were extremely pleasent, so I thought maybe thats where I would get my brochure printed out.
So I go back to that Fedex for the most recent project, our brochure. I was again running late, because work kept me late again. All I need was my brochure printed, 2 copies, front and back. I gave them my flashdrive and they told me my files were corrupt so I couldnt print them there. So I emailed the files to them. After the guy spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how to download the dropbox file, he printed it out WRONG! So I showed him what to do, and then his computer said those files wouldnt print either. I was like no way! I would have been able to print them at home but I had no INK! So I was already there for like 45 minutes, and one genius finally said that they have drop box on their do it yourself printers. I was like omg are you serious, so I printed the inside of the flyer and the outside of the flyer.....but it wouldnt print double sided. So after I spend 50 minutes and $2.08 I asked them to make it double sided for me. So he did and he put it on glossy paper and it looked terrible. I didnt have any time to have him fix it because I was already 30 minutes late for class. Since I had spent over a hour there, I was expecting him to make it double-sided for me for free. No he charged me for it AND THE GLOSSY PAPER I DIDN'T ASK FOR!
I am now ANTI-KINKOS! I just couldn't believe how idiotic these people were!
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