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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The printing industry has the markup symbol AA, which stands for Author's Alterations.
When you submit a job to a commercial printer, you normally get a proof showing what the job will look like when printed, which you review and make corrections on. Minor corrections aren't an issue. Major corrections get the AA tag, which translates as "We charge extra for aggravation". Depending upon the corrections required, it may mean making all new plates, and will certainly involve disruption to the printer's carefully production schedule. They charge through the nose for that, for good reason, so you are advised to carefully proof what you want printed before you submit the job.
(I worked for a big commercial printer back when, and heard a horror story about an annual report. Client error - after the job was printed a mistake was discovered in the financial tables that were part of the 10K section. Because of the regulations governing such things, they couldn't just print and insert an errata sheet with the correction. The had to destroy the original print run and reprint from scratch. I was grateful I wasn't the one on the client's staff who missed that in proofreading...  )
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Dennis |
Indeed. We have a similar annotation, which shall remain unreported here, as we're still open, and have several thousand clients running around out there. :-)
Vis: proofing: just today--today--we had incredible agita from multiple clients. We'd told one client (which comes to us via their publisher, which is our actual client) that we couldn't do "rounded corners" on the edges of his text boxes. Not reliably, in all the ebook formats. He responded to the publishers that in his experience, almost nothing was "not doable," and that what we REALLY meant was that we were lazy, and didn't want to go to the extra trouble. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....(I was sorely tempted to say "oh, gosh, you GOT me," and give it back to him displaying as he wanted--in ONE device, the nitwit, and just wait for him to come back in weeks/months complaining about how bloody sh***y it looks in other devices...).
Some other jack@ss did something that I can't recall, now.
Then a third said that on his second--not first, mind you--pass, he'd found "all these errors." They were all his, apparently, according to what he reported and what I found. He wanted to know if there would be any charge for "emendation." I had to sit on my fingers not to type "Oh, hey, don't worry, brah, we're delighted to eat the costs to fix all your mistakes." I mean...WTF? Why does anyone think that
their mistakes should be paid for by others? What is that? WHY would any sane person think that??? I don't get it. Truly, I do not.
AA. I like the innocuousness of it. (Not to mention, with the BS they hand out, it's where it's driving me....) It's like a small boat, carrying a torpedo.
Hitch