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document.write('The typo story reminded me of a front cover typo on The Boston Phoenix when I was the Production Manager there. It was in the early 80\'s, after the first Itek computer terminals were installed, and art directors were designing with type they keyboarded themselves. After hours of tweaking and perfecting her cover design with three big stacked words SUMMER PREVIEW ISSUE, our design director finally output the front cover and it went through subsequent reviews by editors, proofreaders, and the production staff. On Monday, as everyone picked up their printed copies, one by one we realized that there were three m\'s in the word Summer on the cover! But it looked good!!');
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document.write('Karen');
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document.write('Mars Advertising Inc.');
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document.write('Shortly after I started working in the Reference division of Houghton Mifflin in the late 80\'s we published The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. It generated a good deal of controversy over who got to define what made a person culturally literate. Controversy sells books however, and so no one was unhappy about that. But shortly after the first edition was published -- 200,000 was the first print run -- an error was discovered. The capitol of Louisiana was wrong in the chapter on geographical literacy. The Globe had an article on page three -- this is Not the kind of press a publisher wants. Houghton printed an errata sheet for the first printing, and fixed it in the reprint. ');
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document.write('Greg');
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document.write('Havard Business Publishing');
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document.write('This was emailed to me by a Tips reader - too funny NOT to share!');
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document.write('Way back when the technology was new, we thought we were really cutting edge to use a scanner and OCR to typeset the fine print on the back of a form. The customer gave us a sample printed by someone else, with changes marked. We re-set the face of the form, but since there were no changes in the back print, we just scanned it into our Compugraphic system (does anyone remember them?), but to make sure we got it right, we also ran it through our rudimentary spell check.');
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document.write('Fortunately, there was an old-timer who didn\'t trust all the new-fangled tech stuff and insisted on personally proofreading with his own eyes. The form related to a University which had a medical school, so he wasn\'t sure if it was really a mistake that there were several references to passing an "Anal exam." Turns out that our OCR read the ligature "fi" as a cap "A" and spellchecker must have said, " \'Anal\' or \'final\', either one\'s OK with me.');
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document.write('margie');
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document.write('The "welcome to the world of print" story (about a baby blue blanket request) reminded me of how the pressmen welcomed us "newbies" to the biz back in the \'70\'s when I started as an apprentice in the bindery.  As part of the shop orientation on the first day, each person would spend 15-20 minutes at each station, getting acquainted with the equipment/processes/personnel at each.  It was a great way to learn about each area of the plant and each person\'s contributions.  The lead pressman offered up an explanation of the term "hot off the press" as having its origin in "heat-producing" ink.  He spread a bit out onto a piece of glass, and made a great show of mixing it around with an ink knife, then held his spread hand (palm down) about an inch above it and said, "Yep, it\'s starting to heat up - put your hand over it like this and you can feel it."  Of course, you can imagine what came next (or maybe you have all experienced it) - but needless to say, there was a lot of hand-wiping going on - and a lot of us that couldn\'t wait until the next batch of newbies came along so that we could be the perpetrators instead of the victims!');
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document.write('Curtis');
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document.write('SUPERVALU INC');
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document.write('I love all the entries you published. I love seeing the creativity and challenges we all face. I have been in printing since 1978 and could not think of anything to share. Then reading these reminded me of one.');
document.write('We had a customer want a two color envelope, text only with PMS 202 and 203. They came back because they could not see any difference. We suggested screening it but the custom explained that they had paid a "Professional" designer several thousand dollars to design this and would not allow changes. So we reran them, printing  the darker one heavy and the lighter one light. The customer still could not see a difference and wanted us to redo them. This time without telling them we ran the darker color and screened it to make the lighter color. They loved it, then we told them what we did, they were fine with it. It also made the pressman happy that he could run it one color.');
document.write('Two other newbee stories I had heard about. 1. Sending them around to get the bottle of paper streacher because the cutter operator had cut the paper too short, and 2. Having them go through all the lead type pulling out all the pieces that the type lice had eaten holes into.');
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document.write('Stuart');
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document.write('SSW Coop Services');
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document.write('Okay, as long as we\'re on a roll, I\'ll tell another one:  In 1999, I had an operation that was located in the middle of a grocery warehouse in Southern California.  It was buried so deep in this gigantic building that you had to walk about 60 yards just to see daylight through a door (no windows or skylights).  The shop was to be moved to a different location, as the warehouse was being sold.  We began prepping the shop for moving and quit for the day about 4:00 PM, planning to start up again at 4:00 AM and working several long days to get operational in the new building, a few miles away.  At 4:10 PM, after all the others were gone and I was preparing to leave, a backhoe outside the building dug into an underground line that then shorted out a transformer and plunged the entire compound into an "electricity-free" state.  Translation: no electricity/lights/battery chargers for power pallet jacks and forklifts, etc.  My next move was to go to Home Depot and buy a dozen propane work lights (we had some propane forklifts, so plenty of tanks were available, and although it might seem silly to northerners, it WAS winter, and SoCal folks get chilly when it gets below 65, so a light that also produced warmth was welcomed).  We spent the next 5 days (the move was planned to take TWO), moving everything by hand, in semi-darkness.  I had to buy a LOT of donuts to keep the crew coming in at 4:00 each morning.  The lights came back on in the warehouse - about 4 hours after we\'d pulled the last truck away from the dock and were installing everything in the new building.');
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document.write('Curtis');
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