[Coco] Book Review

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 11 January 2014 15:02:13 Glen VanDenBiggelaar did opine:

> Gene, I believe you are 100% right, I worked at a web press printer in
> "Pre-press" for over 10 years (did the Auto Trader mag up here).

I too have a bit of print shop experience starting at about 13yo, I did 
some of the darkroom drudgery for our then weekly rag called the Redfield 
Review.

But we never had a web fed, closest was a Heidelberg, the only with the 
huge swinging arms that could decapitate the unwary.

Then when we moved to Nebraska I traded some occasional work using my gear 
since I had a full color darkroom at the time for space in the shop a young 
man trying to make a living doing flyer's & newspaper inserts and such on a 
quad of sheet fed offset presses who started up about the same time we 
moved to Carroll NE.

Now there is something that is plumb persnickety about its wet chemistry.  
He was complaining about the plate going blind, which is not enough 'wet' 
in the water in the trough, so I walked over and wet my finger with 1200 
fotoflow, dipped it in the water that had some sort of an odd name, swished 
it from end to end in the tank once and totally ruined the tank, took about 
3 days to get it washed clean enough to work again. Fotoflow 1200 means its 
1200 times wetter than water, the strongest formula kodak was shipping in 
the 60's.  Apparently what it needed was only 10-20% wetter than water.  We 
had to strip an about 30 year collection of hard water right down to the 
cast iron, but then it worked better on his branded juice than it had in 
quite a long time.
> I
> can't see this as an imposition error, but a bindery error and someone
> did not do a quality check at each run.I can't speak for every printer,
> but our lead hand of bindery, picked up a copy of what ever and checked
> it every 500 copies or so. The only way to salvage this run is to cut
> the spine off, rearrange each copy by hand and coil bound them back
> together. A bit of a cost for the printer, but way better than dumping
> the entire defective run. There is too many errors for just a random
> occurrence, this is a major run of the book. It looks like it was done
> in 2 runs, a smaller first run for the proof copies and this major run.
> This error is in no way anything remotely to do with Boisy or Bill.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------ That sounds like its all there, but somebody in
> binding played 52 pickup and failed. I think I would see if
> replacements can be had. This certainly is NOT Boisy's or Bill's fault.
> Its 100% a CRC problem to me.
> 
> How many copies are involved?
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