The Importance of Being Good at Prepress

After the Bob bomb crisis, I couldn't find any work on the web and prepress opportunity opened up. And that was really it was very interesting, so different, but very enlightening. Almost nobody gives you a perfect file. Even your best clients giving you totally press what they thought were totally press ready PDFs would be like, not dude, there's weird spot colors in here. You forgot to pull bleed over here. Oh my gosh. It was awful.