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If you know what ICC means with regards to signage and digital printing, you're pretty much a geek! ICC - International Color Consortium I guess I'm a geek Stringers - A horizontal timber used to support upright posts (from Dictionary.com)
Havin' fun,
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Quill fitch pounce wheel holiday (in paint) charcoal nose grease snapper catwalker (walldog) Journeyman crutch pounce bag (sock) pinky knife (gold leaf) Not to be affiliated with coke. pallet chops pullin' a line blowin up dagger trim wet on wet dry brush one stroke two stroke (for the practicing one stroker) draggin' wood eyeballin' it leanin' (can't make a stroke straight up and down) goin' for the gold (takin to long to paint) pencil sketch (huh?) The show (disney in the 70's)
And what Raymond said...
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(PS nobody's mentioned "Letterheads" or app tape!)
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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X-actoe = Injury resulting from an x-acto rolling off of the table and you thinking it's a stabilo and trying to save it.
Milk = Wunda Size
Coke = Shadow Kaolin, Gilders Whiting, Talc, Etc.
Soap = Bon-Ami Cake
Carrier = the backing paper for rolled goods, Vinyl, mask, etc
Ice Skating = Stepping on carrier which has landed slick side down.
Yard Sale = What happens when you go Ice Skating with an armload of stuff. Everything you have been carrying is spread all around for everyone to see.
Plague = When you get Fire Red One Shot on your fingers you have the Plague, 'cause it spreads like a disease
Smurfed = When you lay your elbow (or whatever) in wet Reflex Blue, you have been Smurfed.
Kit = All the useful stuff you take to a jobsite. Also, the box you use to carry the stuff.
Dixie Cup = Not actually a Dixie Cup. A cleverly folded piece of paper that holds a a small amount of paint.
Cup = Actually a Dixie Cup
Sword / Dagger = Pinstriping Brush
Booze / Juice = Mineral Spirits, Reducer, Turps, etc.
Death March = Any time you must carry a full sheet of Extira by yourself (also applies to thick MDO & HDU
Boxer = like a paper-cut, only from cardboard, and worse.
Alligator = A job that refuses to ever get done due to mistakes, natural disasters, or acts of client stupidity. They are Alligators because they keep on eating up profits.
Deadline = if you work where I do, The day you start the job
There are many more.
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-------------------- Jon Androsky Posts: 438 | From: Williamsport, PA | Registered: Mar 2002
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quote:Originally posted by Jonathan Androsky: Smurfed = When you lay your elbow (or whatever) in wet Reflex Blue, you have been Smurfed.
And around here there is SNAFU and FUBAR.
And measurements are a "yo-so"
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-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Bullnose: upright roundend tidy casual this is a letter style, not the painter doing it)
c-hair: a measurement, usually defined by the job at hand
stars: used to "balance or centre a layout or ine of copy"
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