... sigh...
Mar. 10th, 2003 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cthulhia
One has to wonder about proofers who can't tell when a stray mark, that never shows up consistently on the page, and as often outside the registration marks, is a printer problem and not a production problem. Or that they wouldn't ask someone about this error that appears ON EVERY PAGE.
On Thursday I pointed out to our proofreader lead that the stray marks that look like color registration marks were in fact a product of the printer, not the document. That there was nothing I could do to make them go away, barring getting a new printer or reconfiguring the ones we have, neither of which are in my power to fix.
I thought she heard me. She seemed to nod in some dim sense of understanding. Nonetheless, I pointed this out to my project manager, who also talked with the proofreaders, and my department manager, who suggested adding a sticky note on the print-outs in case it goes to a different proofer.
In spite all of this, all of the pages come back to me. With the stray laser printer marks circled and marked to be deleted.
However, since I am on the floor with the proofreaders, I can't even mutter audible curses about this, and get grunts of support from other production people.
On Thursday I pointed out to our proofreader lead that the stray marks that look like color registration marks were in fact a product of the printer, not the document. That there was nothing I could do to make them go away, barring getting a new printer or reconfiguring the ones we have, neither of which are in my power to fix.
I thought she heard me. She seemed to nod in some dim sense of understanding. Nonetheless, I pointed this out to my project manager, who also talked with the proofreaders, and my department manager, who suggested adding a sticky note on the print-outs in case it goes to a different proofer.
In spite all of this, all of the pages come back to me. With the stray laser printer marks circled and marked to be deleted.
However, since I am on the floor with the proofreaders, I can't even mutter audible curses about this, and get grunts of support from other production people.
