Lessons from printing | Pad Patter 17 Jul

I don’t see it, and I don’t have a mouse (on my iPad with an Apple Pencil, but it doesn’t seem to reveal the problem. I don’t make many books...mostly print 8.5 x 11 pages which I put into protection pockets, then into good quality 3-ring binders. Flaws only cost me the reprinting of one page, but I can identify with the urge to reprint a book over one mistake. Don’t think I would though. Mistakes are part of the story!

 

Justine, I would not get it printed again. I had to highlight your text to find out as I could not see anything wrong with it.
I have a typing error in one of my holiday albums I had printed so I just added it with pen myself.

 

Nobody will notice, I couldn't find it until I read your 'answer'.

 

It looks like a stamp and no one who isn't a scrapper will even realize it wasn't "supposed" to look that way...and scrappers aren't going to realize because it just looks like you wanted a stamped look to go with the paint layers.

Anyone who critiques your cover that closely doesn't deserve to look at your beautiful album!

ETA: oops, I didn't answer about myself. Yup, I've made mistakes. Nope, I never reprinted because of them. (SF has had to reprint two of my albums because of their mistakes. They once sent me a 95-page album that only had like 10 layouts printed. The rest of the pages were BLANK! It was so weird. The kids will look at a blank page and say "oooh, I remember this! It was such a fun day!" and then laugh and laugh.)

 

I didn't notice either! Even reading your answer, it took me a minute or two to understand and see what you were talking about. I definitely do not reprint, but that's because of my financial situation. But I think even if money weren't an issue, I wouldn't reprint.

There was one time I had a book reprinted but it was because the printing company made a ridiculous mistake, mixing up a bunch of pages, leaving some out, it was horrendous! Fortunately, they owned up to it and sent me a corrected version free. But I was annoyed by the waste of paper and the hassle.

 

I read your answer and still didn't see it. It was only after reading Cheryl's comment that I saw it. So nope, I wouldn't reprint.

As for me, depends. I had a shutterfly book reprinted but it was on their dime. There were obvious cutting problems and I could see the edge of one layout on the next one. Second book was good. I kept the bad book and gave the good one as the gift that it was planned to be.

I ordered a shutterfly book in the sale, it will be given to my cousin. I also ordered the same layouts as 12x12 prints for me. When I was sorting the prints I realized I had the wrong year on 2 layouts. 1989 instead of 1988. Uh oh... On my prints, I used a black pen and made the 9 into an 8. Not sure what I will do in the book, it will be here today. I may just laugh it off with my cousin because in the long run, I don't think she'll care about the wrong date. She'll just appreciate the book. She thinks scrapping is cool but not interested in doing it herself.

I've also noticed other mistakes in the journaling on layouts over the years and the only layout I reprinted was the one where Grandma's name was spelled wrong, a letter was left out. Esther had become Ester. Not cool.

My errors are always in journaling and I do try to be very careful by proofreading multiple times. But when the eyes are tired something might slip through. And, with older photos, trying to place the year is harder.

 

Also (I already replied a couple posts ago) I do make typos in my journaling here and there. Sometimes I fix them with a pen; often I ignore them.

It's nice when I notice them before printing though. I just looked at my latest page in the gallery this morning (which I uploaded yesterday) and found I'd made a typo, saying my husband and I were celebrating our 26th anniversary this month instead of our 24th. I can claim to be mixed up because we have known each other for 26 years, but really it was just a mindless typo. I fixed my original layout.

 

I agree with everybody else. If it's that hard to see, forget it. But, that being said, I know how you feel. I would feel the same way!

 

I don't think I'd bother... It looks rather artsy that way.

True story. I few years ago, I had 80 Christmas photo cards printed (at Walgreens, so I know it was a while ago) with the wrong date on it. I think it was for 2013 and I had it printed out at 2103. Did I reprint? Nope. But I did find some Christmas stickers and stuck it on the typo. No one asked me why the candy cane was an added treat.

 

I'm starting to realize I'm not as concerned about these kinds of things as I thought I was. I've never reprinted; if it makes it into a book, oh well. If I catch it beforehand, I will fix it. I've had books be misprinted with pages out of order and have had them reprinted for that kind of error.

 

I didn’t see it either until Cheryl pointed it out.
Every time I go to print a book, I proof read it, then I have my mom or one of my daughters proofread it again and I still end up with mistakes that none of us catch until we see it in print. I haven’t reprinted a book yet, although I was tempted when I realized I’d used the same photo twice in dd’s wedding album. These days, I just roll my eyes and chalk it up to human error.

 

I didn't see it until I read your note and then I still don't really see it

I have found many typos in my books throughout the years. I have never reprinted though. Although I will say, that there have been some books that I couldn't look at for a while because I noticed an error right away. I was so mad/disappointed that I didn't want to look at it anymore. But eventually I get over and hardly notice the error at all.

 

Justine, I tried 12 x 12 BRIEFLY, and found them to be way to big and awkward. 8x8 didn’t give me enough room to make the pictures large enough for me. 8.5x11 was the answer. Perfect. Sometimes I will do an artsy page not meant for printing in a square format. I start with an 8.5 x 11 canvas. If I’m using a template that is square, I use several different ways to use it on the letter-size page. I’m not by my computer for a few days, but will try to remember to share a way that makes it super simple on most conversions.