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Took me 3 weeks to fix a teal and rust color combo that a client said looked like a wet dog
Back in the 90s I worked at a small print shop in Dayton and we had this one job that would not die. The client wanted teal and rust orange for a hardware store flyer, and printed out it looked like a muddy mess, almost like wet cardboard. I kept tweaking the ink mix by hand, one ounce at a time, and nothing worked for close to 18 days of on and off trying. Turned out the paper stock was the whole problem, we switched from a cheap cream sheet to a bright white one and the teal popped like crazy. My boss at the time said 'kid, you just learned more from a dumb flyer than most folks learn in a semester.' Cost us maybe 40 bucks in wasted ink and a ton of my patience. Has anyone else had a combo that only worked once you changed the paper or surface underneath?
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