It really never occurred to me before, all that goes into the making of a movie. Yes, of course, we all know movies have mega budgets spending millions of dollars to make a two hour flick. However, if you're like me, you may not have ever given a lot of thought as to what exactly do these movie makers spend those millions on?
Well, what do you get the person who's got everything? How about dabbling in a bit of graphic design and creating a personalized gift? That's what I decided to do at TPI Solutions Ink for a special person as a thank you gift for being so great. My idea was to create some simple, yet fun and meaningful, memo pads that my friend could use at the office or at home. The design was really basic (as I'm not the designer around here),a collage of select digital photos with my friend's first name at the top. I had the memo's digitally printed on the HP Indigo - this was great because I printed a small quantity, in two sizes, on demand. Once that was done they were trimmed and padded in the bindery. And voila, a thoughtful and creative gift for a thoughtful and creative person! She loved them!
Last week, before my family packed and headed off for our annual 4th of July escape, my daughter Hayley and I headed to the book store. We needed to be prepared, you know? Summer reading lists and all? We found Hayley's book pretty quickly but of course mom needed something fun to read too. Mindless reading is just one of the relaxing things I choose to do when I'm away from it all. Of course, I never quite leave the printer in me or TPI Solutions Ink far behind. Books are printed. . .right? Well. . .at least I'm still reading printed books. (I'm also thinking that an electronic book may not be so sensible on the beach, sand, water, wind and all but that's another subject!) At any rate, the commercial printer in me was bound to notice the flaw in the paperback that I was reading.
To be honest, I'm not exactly sure what went wrong with the printing of this book's cover. However, I first noticed it on the shelf, the curl. It was a new release in paperback and it sounded intriguing, great reading for the long holiday weekend. I noticed that the books at the front of the shelf had covers with a slight curl so I grabbed one from the back. Still had a curl but not as bad as the ones at the front of the shelf. Well, I realize now that it really didn't make a difference what copy of that book I pulled from the shelf, someone made a mistake.