So Bruce calls me over because he's having trouble printing his calendar. The boss wanted him to make her a calendar.
First he's trying to print the calendar using the techniques he used to print the brochure on the old (and now scrapped) printer. No. That doesn't work now and your old setup failed on every other printer except for our POS.
I try it the correct way but the printer flashes a few times and then denies you ever tried to print. We used to get that if there was a Postscript failure, but I haven't seen that trick in years. Still, I'm having to assume there's a flaw in the file.
A calendar is a simple thing. Boxes, numbers, a bit of text. Not hard. He could have developed it in InDesign (layout software). Instead he developed it in Photoshop (photo editing software). Illustrator (drawing software) I could understand. Photoshop is probably the hardest environment to develop something like a calendar in.
And instead of developing 12 months on 12 files he put them on 6 files each with two months. Then he puts it in InDesign in a 2 page spread and puts the picture across both pages. That was wrong and met with disaster even when he was doing it with the brochure. He had to put each file in twice and crop off what he didn't want. But he doesn't remember the many, many complete and total failure each time he tries.
I'm telling him that he has to start over and rebuild in InDesign. I'm making sketches so he can just built one and modify it a few times. Then our resident bureaucratic savant comes over and tells me that what Bruce is doing isn't what the boss wants anyway. Bruce is trying to build a book style calendar that folds in the middle and shows two months at a time. What the boss specifically asked for is something that can fit this three month display with hooks that everyone in the office has. It's designed to show three separate pages in a column. Bruce's calendar wouldn't work at all. And, yes, she had spelled it out for him
So in the end Bruce can just print what he has and take a paper cutter and hole punch to it.
I really hate working with him.
3 comments:
Staples.
With manpower wasted, I'm sure that would be cheaper.
LOL no you don't! You enjoy having someone there to remind you that you have a brain!
Ah, but we're Army. We can't just pop out to Staples for a calendar or nine. No, that's illegal use of government money. Even requisitioning the proper military calendars made for use on these calendar boards involves too much paperwork. Much easier to make our own. Easier still to have me make them.
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