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Nov. 20th, 2002 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
artisanal_xaraHow incredibly frustrating.
I set out to print up some cards to send out to people with our new mailing address and phone number on business card stock that we picked up the other day. It was a disaster. The cards are 'clean edge,' and Avery's solution is to put them on a sticky paper. Of course I didn't notice that the cards were on a backing, and printed the first sheet on the wrong side. Then the sheet wouldn't go through the printer again without causing a jam, since you're not supposed to run sticker-type products through the printer twice. Yes, we tried. (George got them to work anyway later, but that was after I had already blown up and stormed out.)
Then we found out that the cards aren't actually 2 inches tall, they're 2 1/32 inches, so things didn't line up, and we wasted a couple of sheets of cards because of that. Yes, we did the test on plain paper, and compared it to the template they included, and it worked fine against the template. When we had the size adjusted properly the printer wouldn't print on the last 2 cards because the margins were too small. That was the point that I slammed every door in the apartment at least twice before I decided I had to leave for fear of throwing breakable things on the floor or out the window.
While I was gone George managed to salvage enough of the cards on the sheets that we'd already run through the printer that we didn't end up wasting the full package of cards trying to get the 20 that we wanted.
I am going to write a strongly worded letter to Avery telling them my frustrations with the product, including disappointment at the quality of the paper, and the bending resulting from peeling the cards of the sticky backing. They claim to have a complete satisfaction guarantee, so maybe they'll send me a refund or replacement cards with perforated edges instead of these peel and stick ones. If they don't, they have just lost 2 customers.
I set out to print up some cards to send out to people with our new mailing address and phone number on business card stock that we picked up the other day. It was a disaster. The cards are 'clean edge,' and Avery's solution is to put them on a sticky paper. Of course I didn't notice that the cards were on a backing, and printed the first sheet on the wrong side. Then the sheet wouldn't go through the printer again without causing a jam, since you're not supposed to run sticker-type products through the printer twice. Yes, we tried. (George got them to work anyway later, but that was after I had already blown up and stormed out.)
Then we found out that the cards aren't actually 2 inches tall, they're 2 1/32 inches, so things didn't line up, and we wasted a couple of sheets of cards because of that. Yes, we did the test on plain paper, and compared it to the template they included, and it worked fine against the template. When we had the size adjusted properly the printer wouldn't print on the last 2 cards because the margins were too small. That was the point that I slammed every door in the apartment at least twice before I decided I had to leave for fear of throwing breakable things on the floor or out the window.
While I was gone George managed to salvage enough of the cards on the sheets that we'd already run through the printer that we didn't end up wasting the full package of cards trying to get the 20 that we wanted.
I am going to write a strongly worded letter to Avery telling them my frustrations with the product, including disappointment at the quality of the paper, and the bending resulting from peeling the cards of the sticky backing. They claim to have a complete satisfaction guarantee, so maybe they'll send me a refund or replacement cards with perforated edges instead of these peel and stick ones. If they don't, they have just lost 2 customers.
