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Last May, I wrote a brochure about the UU meetinghouse's stained glass windows. I had 50 color photocopies run off at a print shop as a draft version, with the intention of doing a glossy four-color offset print run at some future date. I was thrilled to have found some Arts & Crafts-era fonts on line to use in the brochure, and bought the CD.
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So this week, in the midst of everything else, I needed to update the copy a little. We're having another of the public lecture series on Sunday, and I want brochures available, with a inserted slip asking for donations to help us restore the windows. I went to the print shop and pulled out my CD with the Quark document and photos on it. And I was told, by the same person I've dealt with before (who is very nice and knowledgeable, so this is not a complaint), that they couldn't print a proof of the brochure for me to sign off on because it used fonts they don't have, and their computer was substituting Arial for them. She told me I need to come back with the font CD, which they'll install, and then uninstall there after the job is done to make it all copyright-law-happy.
This left me scratching my head. Did I actually go to a different print shop in May? There are several in town. I use this one for my own town's newsletter and for the UU Emily Dickinson brochure, but maybe I went somewhere else? My memory can be leaky at times.
I just looked through my records, and I did run off the 50 copies there! With no problems about not having the fonts.
What's changed? (This is just a rhetorical question, unless a geek out there actually knows the answer.)
Anyway, it means I have to go back there tomorrow or Friday. Good thing I didn't try to get the thing printed at the last minute.
kendokamel would say)Last May, I wrote a brochure about the UU meetinghouse's stained glass windows. I had 50 color photocopies run off at a print shop as a draft version, with the intention of doing a glossy four-color offset print run at some future date. I was thrilled to have found some Arts & Crafts-era fonts on line to use in the brochure, and bought the CD.
EDIT:
So this week, in the midst of everything else, I needed to update the copy a little. We're having another of the public lecture series on Sunday, and I want brochures available, with a inserted slip asking for donations to help us restore the windows. I went to the print shop and pulled out my CD with the Quark document and photos on it. And I was told, by the same person I've dealt with before (who is very nice and knowledgeable, so this is not a complaint), that they couldn't print a proof of the brochure for me to sign off on because it used fonts they don't have, and their computer was substituting Arial for them. She told me I need to come back with the font CD, which they'll install, and then uninstall there after the job is done to make it all copyright-law-happy.
This left me scratching my head. Did I actually go to a different print shop in May? There are several in town. I use this one for my own town's newsletter and for the UU Emily Dickinson brochure, but maybe I went somewhere else? My memory can be leaky at times.
I just looked through my records, and I did run off the 50 copies there! With no problems about not having the fonts.
What's changed? (This is just a rhetorical question, unless a geek out there actually knows the answer.)
Anyway, it means I have to go back there tomorrow or Friday. Good thing I didn't try to get the thing printed at the last minute.
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