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Subject:Re: Paper for Printing From:"Hiatt, Michel" <MHIATT -dot- INT-MAIL -at- SMTP -dot- INTECOM -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 23 May 1995 09:55:00 CDT
>> book is produced on paper of such poor quality . . .
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Marilynne
m.smith182
P.S. Is there a name for the kind of page I describe? If so, I'd like
to
know it.
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It sounds as if you got a copy of the manual that went through the press
during the pre-run testing or during a paper change as one roll of paper
ended and another was added in. Having worked in the newspaper biz for
10 years, I know that occasionally one of those kinds of pages would slip
through in the process of getting the paper out. I can understand it in
the rush to print a paper, especially when it happens on large dailies
with tight deadlines and large press runs. But I find it very
disconcerting that such a thing should happen when producing
documentation for a product. Sounds like they either weren't careful or
were rushing at the end.
Mike Hiatt, Senior Technical Writer
mhiatt -at- intecom -dot- com
"All opinions are those of the writer
and are not those of the management."
