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The album is off to the duplicator.
This morning was absolute chaos. I wanted to do one last track check and did so. Anything that I might try to fix in that track is that way in the original recording, so that is the way that it will stay.
I got a note from the sales rep that I needed to have everything in by 11 AM to hit the production cycle. Piece of cake, right?
Well, except that my original quote turned out to be for 300 CD-Rs. Ack! It turns out that pressed (replicated CDs) are still available in quantity 300. They are just a bit more expensive. And worth it, in my opinion. So my rep updated the quote.
The automated system had jammed up when trying to upload the PDF artwork over the weekend. They have apparently fixed that problem. And it was at that moment that I was reviewing the quote and realized that my printing was laid out in a template that was not the template specified in the quote.
No, no, no, no, no.
I had gone to the template page and had taken the only available template that could possibly hold a two-CD set. It was just not the right one, because it won't actually hold 2 CDs, pocket or no.
My sales rep told me where to find the right template and promised to tell the website folks that it would be good to put the right template on the big page with all of the Digipak templates so that this never happens to someone again.
That just meant that I had to rebuild the entire insert in a new template. Before 11 AM. Starting at 10 AM.
Did I mention that I have been doing desktop publishing since the days of Ventura Publisher? I am not an expert at this, but I'm pretty good. :)
A whole lot of cut, paste, and finagling later, the new insert was built and uploaded.
And the project is paid for and at the duplicator.
This was followed by an email with my CD printing images failing prepress because they are in grayscale. This is true, but they print fine -- or, at least, they have done so for the last three projects. :)
I had a brain once...
This morning was absolute chaos. I wanted to do one last track check and did so. Anything that I might try to fix in that track is that way in the original recording, so that is the way that it will stay.
I got a note from the sales rep that I needed to have everything in by 11 AM to hit the production cycle. Piece of cake, right?
Well, except that my original quote turned out to be for 300 CD-Rs. Ack! It turns out that pressed (replicated CDs) are still available in quantity 300. They are just a bit more expensive. And worth it, in my opinion. So my rep updated the quote.
The automated system had jammed up when trying to upload the PDF artwork over the weekend. They have apparently fixed that problem. And it was at that moment that I was reviewing the quote and realized that my printing was laid out in a template that was not the template specified in the quote.
No, no, no, no, no.
I had gone to the template page and had taken the only available template that could possibly hold a two-CD set. It was just not the right one, because it won't actually hold 2 CDs, pocket or no.
My sales rep told me where to find the right template and promised to tell the website folks that it would be good to put the right template on the big page with all of the Digipak templates so that this never happens to someone again.
That just meant that I had to rebuild the entire insert in a new template. Before 11 AM. Starting at 10 AM.
Did I mention that I have been doing desktop publishing since the days of Ventura Publisher? I am not an expert at this, but I'm pretty good. :)
A whole lot of cut, paste, and finagling later, the new insert was built and uploaded.
And the project is paid for and at the duplicator.
This was followed by an email with my CD printing images failing prepress because they are in grayscale. This is true, but they print fine -- or, at least, they have done so for the last three projects. :)
I had a brain once...