[RKDinOKC]

Yep I done that with a lot of our valves. They weren't bigger than two people could carry. We did the 4x5 photography in the founder's den and developed an made prints in his basement. Then I got to take the photo to my light table and do the masking/frisket. If was a lot of hassle because we produced photos pre-press could shoot half-tones of using the exact same camera settings for all products.

After photoshop we got a camera and shot the products on a table in our office, the doctored them up and had the half-tones output with the typesetting. Later still we went to a production color laser printer and just made and sent it PDFs. Our press operator fought every step of change.

We had an employees kid that graduated art school that worked for a while. Her stuff was so styled up you couldn't read the text. Everyone just told her how great it looked. Guess it don't matter that you couldn't actually read it. The girls we have now are much better except they sure seem to like putting things in a thin white font on a light green background. Difficult for these old eyes to read.

One of the things I discovered doing graphic arts or commercial art, everybody wants your work, but they don't want to pay for it. Was always getting asked to do stuff for free. It's like all you do is sit at a computer, why do you need paid for that? The worst is people that have absolutely no idea of spacial visualization. You just can't fit all the stuff they want at the size they want it in the area they have.