This old guy at a print shop in Tacoma watched me struggle with a title block for ten minutes

I was setting up a drawing for a small deck project, and my title block was all over the place. He walked over, pointed at my screen, and said, 'Kid, your border is 0.25 inches off. The printer will eat that.' He showed me how to set a locked layer for just the border so it never moves. Has anyone else picked up a simple trick like that from a stranger?

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lily971mo ago

Old guys at print shops know everything.

thomas1051mo ago

Nah, I've had some real duds. One guy argued with me for ten minutes that my file was wrong, only for his machine to be out of calibration. They have experience, sure, but they aren't magic. Sometimes they just get stuck in their old ways and won't listen to new methods. Ever run into a print shop guy who was just plain wrong?