Went to a print shop in Portland that refused to touch my vector file

Drove 45 minutes to a shop that claimed they could do custom transfers on their website. Get there and the guy says oh we only work with PDFs because our software can't handle vector files. I mean what year is it? I had to sit in their lobby and convert it to a 300 dpi PNG on my phone. They still messed up the registration by 2mm. Has anyone else run into shops that won't touch .ai or .eps files anymore?

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campbell.nora25d ago

That shop sounds like it's stuck in some weird time warp. A while back I needed some decals for a school event and the local copy place said they could only accept JPEGs. I brought in a clean vector file and they acted like I was speaking another language. Ended up having to email my design to my son who converted it at his office. The decals came out fine but the edges were a little fuzzy and it drove me crazy.

mason20925d agoMost Upvoted

Edges were a little fuzzy and it drove me crazy" - is it really that deep though?