Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Stupid printer...
So I thought I was doing so well, I got my T-shirt transfers last week, and I had my logo done, and I even went to get new ink for my printer today. I get home from class tonight, and after spending 45 minutes trying to fix a paper jam in the printer, I realize that the NEW color ink cartridge I bought for some reason has NO red ink. Yes, red, the main color besides black in my logo. It's almost midnight, when Kinko's closes, so I have no choice but to print my black and yellow logo on a t-shirt. I then realize that the program I am using to open my logo does not mirror images. Photoshop got wiped from my computer a few months ago. OK, so now I spend another half hour trying to figure out how to mirror my image. Thanks to "Adobe Elements", I finally accomplish this task. Now as for the iron. I am not an ironer. At all. I get the front ironed. Now I try to get fancy and put "crew" on the back of my shirt, and end up screwing that up, while melting the image on the front of the shirt to the pillowcase I'm using to iron on the table. I also can't figure out how to turn off the steam, which does not work with the transfers. Needless to say, my t-shirt did not come out the way I had hoped. I'll bring it tomorrow so that I have something, but maybe I'll go to shutterfly and get my logo put on a mug or something. Maybe a mousepad. That would be good. On top of all this, I didn't find a guy willing to take pictures for my animatic. Grrr. No one wants to be the dorky camper. Oh well, I'll keep bugging people I know. Any takers?
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3 comments:
if it makes you feel better kinkos wont print on that iron on paper...i tried going there... im sure your logo still looks amazing ..at least it was a dark/almost blackish red. cant wait to see your new anamatic tom!
You are soo funny! I went through 2 t-shirts and did the same thing on one.... ironed it to the pillowcase on the otherside while trying to redo the image after flipping it over. Let's keep to our pact... no stress, concrete decisions! Obviously, I'm not good at either. I may have a friend who could be your camper! Let me know, and have fun in FLA!
I was lucky enough to learn from everyone's t-shirt transfer mistakes, making my t-shirt on Wednesday afternoon after Justin fixed the color printer in 1041.
And then I ended up ironing my logo on the t-shirt upside down; shows how smart I am.
Now I have a beautiful, almost flawless upside-down t-shirt. The sad part is that I spent all my Previz work time last week on the t-shirt -- redoing the logo, buying the transfers, etc.
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