Once got a used "Designer"
Rosco swatch book from Design Lab Chicago for free. It was missing a few gels. Larger sized and I think
Rosco has stopped making them as they were perfect in size for something between a Inkie and MR-16 in
gel size. Yep, that's what I used it for and it became.
Agreed with the above, never had to pay for a
swatch book from a dealer, just as sugguested retail price is often sugguested if direct
thru the manufacturer over that of a distributer. On the other
hand, perhaps paying a few bucks for a
swatch book isn't a bad thing in something that couldn't be afforded. You pay for drafting
templates don't you? Or perhaps not if Auto Cadd. Put it another way, remember paying for a sample kit for paint, forget what it was... for Iddings sample or FX paint but the sample was sufficient for the project. Also in like '98 remember having paid a few hundred dollars for a copy of Sweet's Group for like an encyclopedia of free catalogues that paid them so as to get published with them. For lamps as an example, only Philips paid to have their free catalogue in the encyclopedia the end users paid to get. Still though it was a good resource in things available and ideas. Often listed on such catalogues is a resale value, normally it's a free catalogue but money to do so is valid. Got a few
swatch books say from rubber dynometer density or squishyness to
hardware cloth like samples. Had to pay for them in getting but in now having them I can often replace at less a price what the manufacturer might sell me as a finished product for more cost.
Gel sample
swatch books should be free or nominal charge perhaps, but in the end your use is professional use of it and just as with any other
swatch book given the above, might be worth paying a nominal fee for at some
point.
"and realized I don't have a
rosco (my preferred brand of
gel)
swatch book around." Means to me you need more than a few available to each and every customer or in having one or a few
swatch books, it's either not worth your effort so as to ensure as with gathering other stuff that
swatch book or it's not important enough to you to ensure you say have one for work and one for home. Beyond that, it's the vendor's fault that no matter how many free sample kits they make available to you.. you didn't have another where you were a the time. Been there, done that myself but I didn't blame the vendor especially if going on
line to them to out of the blue to them asking instead of going to your supplier or company you left your swatches with in asking to ship them.
Where is your preferred brand of
swatch book at this
point?
Rosco of course should pay to
send you another free sample thus otherwise you will change brands.
Sorry, not geting the arguement in seeing such things perfectly free
thru suppliers normally and even should be for sale. After that in if you already had one but forgot it somewhere, just as if you fogot your
C-Wrench somewhere and were no longer useful for the crew, you go home or sweep the floor at best. Not seeing a
Rosco problem here if in contacting them directly they want to charge for it. I think samples books shouldn't be free. Save a few cents per
gel in the next price raise and charge for the samples made up from them.
