…on orders with preauthorized amounts but haven't yet been posted for charging!
I would otherwise have goofed, and I'm not sure I'd have been able to persuade this particular customer to let me re-run their card!
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To the developers of the web portal I use for print order submissions and billing…
THANK YOU for having the foresight to program automatic rejection of a command to digitally shred credit card info…
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Yeah. Sure. Go ahead and ask me to print 150 copies of a flyer with a YouTube URL that you typeset using a font that only has upper case letters.
#YouTubeURLsAreCaseSensitive
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I came to that number by looking up that I bought an entire pallet of 32 cases (1,250 sheets per case) August 2023, May 2024, and March 2025—40,000 sheets every 9–10 months!
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Searching for an alternative prompted me to calculate a number I never really knew for certain—I print on average more than 4,000 12×18 sheets a month!
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During Covid, it got REALLY hard to find. Lately it's been fine but is now scarce again. One vendor speculates discontinuation and YIKES I hope not!!
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The MOST popular paper BY FAR in my print shop is a Hammermill 60lb Bright White Cover weight. I stock various sizes, but 12×18 is most common, allowing 11×17 posters or two-up 8½×11 with bleed.
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Ooooooo I just coined a perfect term for this process of hiding when the ink cracks down the spine when a booklet is folded:
Spine Crack Abatement!
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#NotAChiropractor
Two versions of a folded greeting card. The top one demonstrates how the ink cracks apart when folded if scoring equipment isn't used. The bottom card was edited to add a white line down the middle. Technically the heavy paper still cracks, but since the ink isn't split apart, it really isn't noticeable. In spite of telling a customer we don't have scoring equipment and any ink that isn't a super light shade would crack, they wanted to see it. Upon agreeing it's bad, I thought of a possible solution by intentionally creating a white line down the spine. Customer was happy. And I am happy that I can show this photo to future customers instead of printing a sample I know they won't like.
Spine crack and workaround
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#print #paper #copy #spine #fold #ink #crack #solution #workaround #TalesFromThePrintShop
