ARGH! Wrong trim size!

[Book Lover]

OK, so I know hardly anyone will understand this, but I jsut haveto vent. One of our outside services sent a book to the printer with the wrong trim size, after I gavce them the correct measure in mid-December! Want to know why your college textbooks cost so much? Idiots like this who add $18K to the print job!

</vent> Thank you.

[Lavender Brown]

1. Ay

I work in publishing - we see stupid things like this from time to time and it's aggravating.

[Book Lover]

6. It's not like the guys a newbie

He's been in this business nearly as long as I've been alive. I hate being in this position; I can't yell at him but it'll be a tussle getting him to admit the error...

[prolesunited]

I hope the outside service

is forced to eat the cost for the mistake. You do have proof you specified the correct size, right?

[Book Lover]

3. Indeed I do....

Its just that this is so not the right time for this problem...

[prolesunited]

5. Never is

but at least they can't try and blame you

[eyesroll]

2. I've been there.

I once had to re-do an 8-page insert AFTER all the designers had left (I am a magazine editor with a reasonable command of Quark, but not much of a design aesthetic), so I could get it back to the printer by the close of their business day (about an hour later), and this included having to cut some advertiser-supplied text (we had leeway for grammar/spelling/style/space but we still had to be careful)...because the designer had used the trim size of the main book, not the tipped-in insert, when designing it originally.

This didn't cost us too much -- electronic files hadn't been plated yet -- but it was aggravating.

[Book Lover]

4. Nice to see an editor not afraid of Quark

:-) And yes, that kind of thing is aggravating. It's not like I don't mind the work - I love making books - but when people who should know better let something big like this slip, it makes me mad.

[grace0418]

7. Graphic designer here

I know what you're talking about and I sympathize. What usually happens in my office is that management rushes projects through before proper templates and dummies can be created, then the project has to be reclosed after they discover that the trim sizes are wrong. And they never learn. You get a project that just HAS to be done right away so there's no time to wait for correct templates, then you find yourself redoing everything three weeks or a month later. It's maddening.

[barackmyworld]

8. book makers are ridiculous!

At the beginning of the year, this company had to redo about 250 books for one of my classes because the wrong course number was printed on the cover. NO, we can't just cross out the damn little number, and write "186" instead. We have to unbind all the books, redo the cover, and put them back together!