[dippedstix]

I think I finally convinced them not to put all that other extra stuff in the invites. I had several real life people weigh in on it, and convince them that it isn't necessary.... just my opinion didn't seem to be enough to convince them.

the attached files are my working files... not quite completed.... but close.

Really Nice! Great invite!!

 

[dippedstix]

so I finalized our invitations today.... took the printout down to kinko's to get a price for the printing of them...and BAM Denied by Kinko's.

The lady working there refused to even give me a price. She said my invitations "Could possibly be infringing on some copyrighted work somewhere" and because of that she completely refused to help me. She even told me I couldn't use their self-services and print them myself. Basically I was told to leave their store.

I wasn't even rude or anything. I just walked up and said "hello, I need a price on getting aprox. 100 and 150 of these printed." and I showed her the home-printed version of our invite. She totally became rude and in a condescending tone said "do you own these images?" and I said "well I created this invitation on my computer at home, and it has all my information on it." and she said "this looks too professional, and must be a copyrighted work". I tried to assure her that one, it was an invitation for a party, and two it wasn't copyrighted, but she absolutely refused to help me and shoved my homemade insert back across the counter to me.

I then wished her a good afternoon and said thank you and turned and left.

Has anyone else ever had problems like this? I think I just got a person who's had some sort of negative bad day. I have had quotes from online companies who have seen my invite artwork, and none of them have said they couldn't print my invites.

I wouldn't even know where to begin to apply for a license to use Jack Skellington-like images in my invitations... It's not like I'm selling these things, or even have a large budget to play with... As is, it looks like it's gonna cost about $120 for these complete invites for up to 150 of them.

On another note, I created this REALLY awesome wallpaper (I actually hand drew it from 3 different versions of the wallpaper that I had seen) that I was going to have printed at Kinko's too... It's very similar to the one found in the hallway of Doors at the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland... Should I even bother trying to get this printed? It was going to be taped onto the patio walls at our house for the party.

Well, they could get in trouble if it ever got out that they printed them. Grocery store chains won't do character cakes either because of this (unless it's already approved to be in their assortment). If I were you, I'd try another kinkos. I think you may be able to find someone to do it for you. You probably came across a manager- you need to find a kid that's working there on the weekend. LOL