... has been absolutely crazy.



In just 5 days, I've learned how to print, crease, cut, and bind everything from photobooks to table cards to mugs. I've used a fancy spectrophotometer, packed well over 200 orders and probably got over a dozen paper cuts. I'm supposed to work mainly with marketing/design, but the boss wanted me to take part of the production process too to learn as much as possible about the company.

At first everything was new and overwhelming, and I messed up a lot. I'm using a "guillotine" to cut the brochures, cards and papers for the printers, and if the stacks are cut on the wrong program you have to start all over with the printing and creasing - which I did. Over and over and over and over. And the first time I managed to do it right, I produced 70 brochures too many Got the hang of it by the end of the week, though. Everyone's been really nice at work and I couldn't be happier. We don't have a fancy machine for assembling pages, so I've learned how to do it all by hand too; soft covers, hard covers and album covers. Absolutely love it!

You can see a 1:22 vid of the dreaded "guillotine" here:
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The machine that I  use to crease the brochures and cards is also operated by hand:
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Fun fact I picked up: Paper is best used "fresh" from a newly opened box. If it's left in open air for a few days, it starts to get dry and causes paper jams. And apparently it should just be trashed after a month

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