Seattle Bindery Newsletter: Issue No. 57. We welcome your comments.

1. Tips on the Tipsters. Here are a couple of good resources for our printer customers. The first is the website www.printbuyersonline.com, a print buying e-community, that gives printers good insight into buyers’ issues. Of particular interest is the Ideas & Advice section that houses many articles pertinent to buyers, and the Tips page. You might even consider registering to become listed on the Find a Printer/Supplier page. For publishers, we recommend the eReport from Seybold. It’s chock-full of technical information, as well as strategic advice for magazine and catalog publishers. The January 11 issue has a very interesting piece entitled “Perspective: PDF-The Universal Publishing Format?”

2. Blood Drive Redux. We were corrected by a reader on the segment in our last FaxNewsletter where we encouraged making a blood donation. It was pointed out that the Red Cross does not handle the blood supply in our community. Rather, it is the Puget Sound Blood Center (www.psbc.org) that keeps blood donations in the local community. The Puget Sound Blood Center is a huge local success story, so we’re doubly apologetic for shorting them on recognition. So, get thee to the Puget Sound Blood Center!

3. Tip of the Week. For saddle-stitched books, allow 1/8th-inch trim for the head, foot and face of the signature. Use a 3/8th-inch binding lap. If you have cross-overs, use parallel folding sequences on 8-, 12- and 16-page signatures. Avoid right angle folding sequence layouts, if possible. A BRC, if it is included in the book, can be jogged to the head or foot and trimmed with the pages, or, it can be placed in the middle if it doesn’t require trimming.

4. Risky Business. Described as an “accountant’s accountant,” Joseph Berardino, head of Arthur Andersen, has shown that even the smartest guys can be proven stupid when it comes to business dealings. The Enron debacle and its tidal wave of implicated heavyweights-Andersen disclosed last week that its employees had  destroyed documents related to the Enron audits-makes a printer’s risks look positively benign. Hard to admit, but it seems accountants are just as fallible as the next guy, and the majors just have a few more zeroes after their numbers when it comes to assessing risk exposure.

5. Keep those comments coming! Thanks to all of you who have sent us such positive responses to our FaxNewsletters. One customer even said folks in her office “fight” over who gets to read it first. Now we don’t want to be the cause of any internal bickerings, but we’re very pleased you find these missives useful. Remember, we also welcome suggestions on topics, so don’t hold back. Tell us what you’d like to receive more information about. You may just find a Starbucks coupon in your mail as a  “thank you.”


 
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