Offsetting Print Glitches...

So... today I made a print run to Kinko's. I only took about half what I wanted to take, since one of the two WLP SECRET PROJECTS to premeire at A-Kon won't be available until the Thursday before the con... which is cutting things tight... oh well.

The other SECRET PROJECT had two glitches in printing. The first glitch arose because the original art for the portfolio was done two to a page of original board. This meant I had to copy, then turn the original around to copy the other half, and then use white-out tape to cover up the line down the middle of the artwork.

I ended up turning one piece of art three times, or something, because when I printed the half of the portfolio that didn't need tape (and thus could go through the document feeder), I discovered 29 copies into a 50 copy run that I was running copies of six sheets, not five... two of which were identical.

I stopped the run, removed the superfluous original, and decided to wait until getting home (50 miles away from the Kinko's) to remove each individual duplicate page from the run thus far.

I didn't discover the second glitch until I got home and began collating. The run of 22 copies to finish out the 50 (and cover for a possible shortage) had a scan-streak on one page. This happens when an original fast-scanned through the document feeder has a bit of debris on the scanner, or if something jostles the scanner for a microsecond- it's basically a thin black line across the page. I sometimes put up with them on covers, but never on portfolio interiors.

On any other occasion, such a glitch would threaten the entire print run, which would be as much as $60 wasted. (Yes, $60 is high finance for me.)

However, the page with the streak happened to be the one that was duplicated in the earlier run.

It's interesting when Murphy trips over his own shoelaces...

Offsetting Print Glitches...

So... today I made a print run to Kinko's. I only took about half what I wanted to take, since one of the two WLP SECRET PROJECTS to premeire at A-Kon won't be available until the Thursday before the con... which is cutting things tight... oh well.

The other SECRET PROJECT had two glitches in printing. The first glitch arose because the original art for the portfolio was done two to a page of original board. This meant I had to copy, then turn the original around to copy the other half, and then use white-out tape to cover up the line down the middle of the artwork.

I ended up turning one piece of art three times, or something, because when I printed the half of the portfolio that didn't need tape (and thus could go through the document feeder), I discovered 29 copies into a 50 copy run that I was running copies of six sheets, not five... two of which were identical.

I stopped the run, removed the superfluous original, and decided to wait until getting home (50 miles away from the Kinko's) to remove each individual duplicate page from the run thus far.

I didn't discover the second glitch until I got home and began collating. The run of 22 copies to finish out the 50 (and cover for a possible shortage) had a scan-streak on one page. This happens when an original fast-scanned through the document feeder has a bit of debris on the scanner, or if something jostles the scanner for a microsecond- it's basically a thin black line across the page. I sometimes put up with them on covers, but never on portfolio interiors.

On any other occasion, such a glitch would threaten the entire print run, which would be as much as $60 wasted. (Yes, $60 is high finance for me.)

However, the page with the streak happened to be the one that was duplicated in the earlier run.

It's interesting when Murphy trips over his own shoelaces...