Fake paper
mara06 (2548 pencils) | Fri, 2009-05-15 22:35I was thumbing through a copy of the 50th anniversary issue of Communication Arts magazine (April/May 2009) yesterday evening and an ad for synthetic paper caught my eye. And my hand. I mean, wow, it was beautiful. Anybody ever use that stuff? Is it totally anti environmental? Are printers stocking it? I'd love to know more about this.
If you can get this issue, don't miss the Cougar ad. Just don't. :-)
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Mara
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Caught it in GD Monthly. Nice paper. No printer is going to "stock" paper like that. They just order it when it's requested.
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Never seen anybody using it. Too expensive. :)
I figured it would be pricey. Really is nice though. FWIW. none of my printers stocks anything interesting, just the usual. It gets frustrating when I want to try something exotic, but the distributor will only make it available in giant pallets. Grrr.
Mara
i was supposed to use it once, but then the client cracked down on non-GPO printing (it was a dept of ED conference binder) and we had to completely reconfigure using a different process. i was bummed.
i have a few press sheets of black plike that a printer had left over from a job and gave to me when he was cleaning up. it's beautiful paper.
Oh, I did some pieces for the EPA several years ago. Having to play within their rules (lowest bid on the RFP) was hell. Paid well, though. Ironic, innit?
With any luck, we'll get yo design something nice for that paper. Something with depth and purity and blah blah blah. What does it actually cost? Do you remember from your near miss?
Mara
sadly, GPO regs often made me pay more for printing.
with GPO, it can't be sent out for bid until all files are collected and sent to GPO with the specs. so if your client can't get their shit together until the last minute, all bids end up being high because they're all rush jobs.
if i could have worked with my own vendor, it would have been planned on their press all along and we could have set everything up months ahead of time and had a lower price.
so we lost both on price and on QC (since i got whatever vendor was willing to do the rush job at the lowest price).