[5738] in APO Printshop
Re: trouble locking up...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Thu May 21 00:02:30 2009
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 00:02:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
cc: Kristin Kuhn <kkuhn@MIT.EDU>, apo-printshop <apo-printshop@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <200905201838.n4KIc9kN031470@sodalord.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:38:09 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
To: Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
Cc: Kristin Kuhn <kkuhn@mit.edu>, apo-printshop <apo-printshop@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: trouble locking up...
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 gives good advice here.
except that the reg day job has an additional problem:
the sides of the boxes, made out of brass rule, have no give,
like the wooden furniture does,
so it is very critical that the set lines of type inside the boxes are
exactly the same length
in most of the jobs in the shop, the set lines of type can vary a
little in length, and the give in the wooden furniture will hold them
yiLFS -len
> 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
>
