Delivery day nerves

[Marian]

How do you cope when the delivery date of a large job that you have designed looms closer and closer?

I've just spoken to a printing company who said they used to work with a designer who had to take the delivery day off because he was just too nervous to come into work.

When the huge lorry turns up to deliver the job I am a nervous wreck!! :icon_hide:

Any tips for coping?

[Toppers]

Yes... double, tripple, quadruple check your proofs before they go to print knowing that if there are any problems that it's the printers fault to fix!

[DougBarned]

Just make sure you've done a good job and you'll have nothing to worry about

And if something does come back a bit off, make sure you have evidence someone else told you to make it that way :icon_lol:

Good luck

[spottypenguin]

I hate it when deliveries come in. Despite me checking the work, my line manager and the web development lad it's when that one tiny thing is wrong; hate it, that sicky; gut churning moment as you look through the work.

[Minuteman Press]

Take the proofing process seriously, make sure you are not disturbed and if you can find zero errors, check again. The more jobs you do, the less the stress.

[Dave L]

Easy: never, ever be the person who signs off the proofs.

[Toppers]

Easy: never, ever be the person who signs off the proofs.

Made me LOL!

[spottypenguin]

Easy: never, ever be the person who signs off the proofs.

Aye right, my boss always signs the proofs off - but I have never yet heard him say an error was his fault

[rgregory]

Aye right, my boss always signs the proofs off - but I have never yet heard him say an error was his fault

LOL that's just what I was thinking

[bigdave]

I get nervous just incase Ive missed something stupid. I made a slight mistake once with a 64pp booklet that was ona 10k print run. for some reason I didnt put a text wrap on one image and 2 lines of text (including someones phone number) disapeared behind it... I dont think anyone ever noticed as they paid the full amount without complaint....