| MOMOKO said at 8:57pm on March 6th, 2008
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Iris, fading occurred before varnishing. Now I found that he paid $4.50 per sq feet to print those cheap photos. It has nothing to do with varnishing, as I and the other resin guy use the type of resin that doesn't interact with glossy photo papers.
But the postersigns.com doesn't state that prints are free from fading. First of all, this is the type of prints for POSTERS. I think he tried to sue postersigns.com but he couldn't.
Why, then, did I pay him $200 ?????? I think it is his fault that he printed such cheap prints and by varnishing with resin they look substantially good. He was trying to sell those while the color was still bright.
And postersigns.com is misleading us with their products, saying it's HP, but not telling us which HP and which ink. |
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| ART By IRIS said at 9:14pm on March 6th, 2008
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I don't get it, how did the fading occurred before varnishing? you are saying that he tried to sell them and they looked good after varnishing?
Anyway, if the resin is supposed to interact well with photo paper, either it's meant for chemical prints, or else, like you say, for archival inks and paper, like the good printers use. |
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| MOMOKO said at 9:24pm on March 6th, 2008
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I think the explanation is found in my post in this thread posted at 6:55pm on March 6th, 2008 (page 1) |
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| MOMOKO said at 9:51pm on March 6th, 2008
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I guess I didn't explain that I was on my way to go to Europe and he brought some 48 photographs all in large format and I could finish a little less than half of those before going to Europe. Soon after I came back from Europe I had an accident and couldn't work. I told him to find someone else to do the resin work.
Since the prints were all printed by this shady printer at postersigns.com, some of them faded already before anybody did anything to them, but since they were all piled up all together, I didn't INSPECT one by one because I couldn't even guess that they were all faded.
The resin guy who took over my job due to my illness went ahead and varnished FADED photos. Their job is to varnish, not to evaluate the fading of photos. So they did varnish them, but when the things were delivered to my former client, he was enraged and becoming verbally abusive to me on emails. He sent me 18 emails complaining and blaming how bad I was not to inspect the photos and remove the faded ones.
Anyway, I am mentally drained. |
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| Ashley Dietrich said at 11:42pm on March 6th, 2008
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I really think you should counter-sue. What you are describing IS harrassment. No matter what, go to the hearing. You cannot let only him have the say. You should compile the following into a folder for the judge (keeping a copy for yourself):
1) the best record of events you can write - with dates and times, of when you 1st met and everything after
2) communications with the other parties and information from the poster site, etc.
3) a page of references you've worked with before who can vouch for your integrity
Bottom line: if you didn't touch the photos or do anything to them, he shouldnt be able to make a case. If the prints were faded, it's the printer's error. The only thing that looks bad is that you paid him $200 before. Just beware of court costs on this - the loser usually pays and fees can be more than the settlement cost. Perhaps someone should sue him for being an @$$... |
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| Ashley Dietrich said at 11:45pm on March 6th, 2008
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PS: save and print ALL emails to and from him for your records. If you really want to be legit, you can include your phone bill/record from your calls. |
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| MOMOKO said at 11:57pm on March 6th, 2008
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Thank you for reading my crap and even responding to it...
I went to the local government web site to find that he currently has 3 lawsuits ongoing. (last time I saw it, there were only 2 lawsuits) I will think about this over again tomorrow.
My attorney friend was telling me about a woman who sued so often (135 lawsuits) and a judge, one day, told her to **ck off from court because the court house was booked with her lawsuits at all times.
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| Daniel Rodgers said at 4:23am on March 7th, 2008
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Printing litho seems the best way to get prints that wont fade. The inks are different to those of desktop printers. |
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| Jennie Rosenbaum said at 6:26am on March 7th, 2008
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Hi Momoko, what a horrible thing to happen! yup, your lawyer is right, this guy is a bully, and what the bullies bank on is the hope that you will get fed up and just give up on the whole thing. if they make it too much trouble you might just give them the money without a fight. and I really really understand the urge to just make it go away!
I agree, keep all emails and all records of contact with him, including your responses. if he keeps trying to harass you make a note of it and tell him cooly that he can speak to your lawyer. having a lawyer is a pain but you should be able to find one that will take your case on a no win no fee basis (fairly easy in a case like this) and they will probably add their fees onto the final settlement. they will probably work around your plans too! think about countersuing, it's the only thing these bullies understand.
I hope it all works out well for you, if the lawyer is any good it will! |
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| MOMOKO said at 1:17pm on March 7th, 2008
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I've seen litho prints turned greenish blue. It depends on which paper and ink were used for printing. Some fade
I even heard of giclee prints turning all greenish blue. A bank bought a whole bunch of giclee and after 5 months they all turned greenish blue so the person who printed the giclee had to return all the money to the bank.
Some prints fade because many people "cheat" by using less quality paper and less quality ink.
If the giclee was printed on a right paper with a right printer and right ink by a skilled person, then it won't fade for a long time. There are fade-free non-giclee printers that work with only no-fade inks but the colors are very dull so they can be totally useless for fine art printing. Some architecture firms use them for printing large scale presentation materials.
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