In Q1, we had an assignment assigned to create from scratch an icon library for a graphic recipe. It was a 3 week long assignment as it was fairly extensive in workload. I likely put in 16+ hours into it, and was very proud of the work I had done.
Due to school not being open on Saturday’s to access the print lab, I did one round of initial printing a draft and stopped into a Kinkos to make sure the sizing and line quality were good for print. Everything checked out pretty well upon the test print, so I continued working to finish.
Since I needed the whole next week after printing to finish my assignment and would not have access to the school lab for printing over the weekend, I decided I would go into campus very early that Monday of class and print. Our professor had spoken with us he would be at campus by 7 am so there would be enough time for everyone to get final drafts printed. I was the first one there and printed a draft, and my colors, though saying they were the exact same value in my Illustrator file, were printing just slightly different. A few pieces on my recipe were printing a cool gray, where others were printing warm. It wasn’t ideal, but I luckily planned to give myself a few hours of time before class to address any last minute issues that would arise. I eventually was able to get the color discrepancy fixed on time. I learned it is a good idea to give yourself a good window of time for these sorts of circumstances.