Use a Printer and Be Damned
Elsewhere on LJ, swisstone bemoans the sheer stupidity of the printers he's used to produce a one-off fanzine in memory of andypop.
I was reminded that way back in 1977, when many of you were in short trousers (indeed, dr_walpurgis still is..), I took the camera-ready copy for the first issue of the Brum Group fanzine Meta along to Rog Peyton at Andromeda in Birmingham. He ( Read more... )
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"That's pretty incredible.
"My worst experience happened when I was putting together a newsletter for UK student film societies about ten years ago (my other fandom-like activity): 32pp A3 saddle-wired to give an A4 booklet, and I'd provided them with a dummy copy, and with the camera-ready copy pasted up into two page signatures (I was feeling a bit keen).
"When I picked up the booklets, the pages were out of order, and as far as I could work out, they'd split up my correct signatures and rearranged them in some unfathomable and crooked fashion. Not best pleased.
"On a lighter note, my partner ias pinched my design for the newsletter and used it for the newsletter of the academic research unit she was working in at the time. Seven years on, they're still using my design, and their production standards are high enough that I've been able to see what my newsletter would have looked like had I not had it printed by idiots..."
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