[5735] in APO Printshop
Re: trouble locking up...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Wed May 20 14:39:04 2009
To: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
cc: Kristin Kuhn <kkuhn@MIT.EDU>, apo-printshop <apo-printshop@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 May 2009 06:31:02 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:38:09 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
Also, be sure that all the lines of type really are the same length.
Otherwise no matter how tightly you expand the quoins against the
side, there'll be lines they're not compressing horizontally. This
has been catastrophic for the Reg Day job. If that's the problem,
try really hard to adjust the length by switching around between
3-em, 4-em, and 5-em spaces rather than by inserting copper strips.
Over time, the Reg Day job had accumulated copper here, there, and
everywhere to try to make little adjustments, and that was basically
what made it near impossible to lock up.
Mitch
> hi kk
>
> * try a 3rd quoin on each side
>
> * make sure a thin isn't between a lead and a line of type
>
> * make sure none of the furniture is wrapped
>
> * try tightening the quoins a hair more
>
> yiLFS -len
>
> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 04:23:02 -0400
> From: Kristin Kuhn <kkuhn@MIT.EDU>
> To: apo-printshop <apo-printshop@mit.edu>
> Subject: trouble locking up...
>
> yo printshop
> I am having extreme difficulty in locking up a rather large block of text.
> Whatever I do, the whole block is very "squishy" - nothing falls out,
> but if you push on the letters, they definitely will move in and out.
> any generic "have you tried this?" advice would be most appreciated!
>
> thanks,
> Kristin
>
