10/05/2011

Fleeting Phrases| mind your b's & d's

No matter how many times when letterpressing, it is always worth the effort to do a proof before properly printing. Sometimes the wrong sized font gets put back, like the t in residential above. Even though there are nicks so you know which way up to place the font sometimes your eye tricks you, and you place the c how you would normally and then when printing it reads back to front. Ds and Bs like Ps and Qs are always annoying to use. But I feel there weren't too many mistakes for a first proof. I still don't understand why I got the d in residential correct but not in the other sentences. I'll need to train myself to have a printer's eye.