It Just Jumps Off The Page

June 25 2009, 5:39am

Me: on the phone “Hello, **** Printing.” Woman: “Yeah, I need to get something printed, and I just need to know if you can do it or not.” Me: “That’s entirely possible, what is it you want to print?” Woman: “Well, it’s something on a website.” Me: “Hmm. Web-res graphics tend not to print well. You’ll want something at least 300 dpi. And web graphics are in RGB color, and we would need CMYK.” Woman: “Oh. Well, if I show you the website, can you check?” Me: “Sure, no problem.” (She sends me to this website and directs me to a banner ad.) Me: “Uh, you mean this advertisement that’s flashing at the top of the screen?” Woman: “Yeah, can you print that? Like 1,000 of them so I can hand them out?” Me: “But it’s animated. Even if the quality was good enough to print, I could only print one still frame…it wouldn’t be moving.” Woman: “Darn it! That’s what my boyfriend told me too! I just wanted to be sure.”