I tried to send this message to the individual editors, but kept getting
strange messages from my ISP.
Carol
 
 
It was great seeing and meeting the newsletter editors last week.  I have
started on my Sept.-Oct. newsletter, trying to sort out all the "stuff"
I've collected over the summer.  Here's something I thought you all might
enjoy -  written, I think, by the owner of a local print shop who does our
printing.
 
TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
 
As all printers know, "typos" are not the fault of the printers.  The pages
are printed correctly with all the little characters (letters and symbols)
in the right place.  However, the printing process involves ink, water,
ninety-nine percent alcohol, ethylene, glycol, potassium phosphate, and,
perhaps, some spilled "sore knee medicine".  What happens in the "wee"
hours of the night is beyond our control.  Those little characters are high
and wired from all those chemicals.  The "P" and "Q" letters wake up,
somewhat bent, looking like music symbols.  This causes all the other
characters to want to get up and dance around on the paper.  Tired and
perhaps still a little high, they don't always find their way back to their
correct locations before morning.
 
Larry Barrickman, January, 1995