Part of Metal Type’s Printing Advice section here Phil discusses customers.<\/p>\n
Customers: yes, the bane of every commercial shop. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The worse by far and away were Architects. \u00a0Just so ultra fussy and artistic and inventive. \u00a0I printed for two of them and then threw in the \u00a0towel. \u00a0There was no room for me. \u00a0They wanted to be the designer and type setter and pressman. It just did not work. \u00a0I had a shouting match with the last architect over the phone and that was that. \u00a0Nutters all of them.<\/span><\/p>\n The best customers that I had were managers of machine shops. \u00a0They \u00a0just phoned up and said come on over and get this order for invoices or whatever. \u00a0They would show me the form and tell me what they paid last time, and did I want the job.\u00a0 And they all paid on delivery or at 30 days. \u00a0A pleasure to work for such fellows.<\/span><\/p>\n Toward the end of my career, I stopped printing wedding invitations. \u00a0I just could not stand demanding women, telling me that they wanted to have their wedding perfect. \u00a0The all wanted 1000.00 of service for 100.00 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nuts to that. \u00a0I would sooner do most anything else. \u00a0\u00a0Incidentally, all of my relatives put the arm on me for their wedding invitations. \u00a0One even told me that I would have had to buy them a gift anyway, so I might as well give them the invites as that gift. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Of all of the wedding invitations for relatives and close friends that I printed and gave away; \u00a0well I have only ever seen these people at their wedding and never since. \u00a0Oh, what joy in my life.<\/span><\/p>\nWedding Invitations<\/h2>\n