Day 7

At Hatch, the mid press is signed by all the celebrities that drift through the shop. Kelsey helped me find Shel Silverstein's signature (Martha Stewart just happened to get in the shot too.)

WHAT I LEARNED

• Let freshly printed posters dry for a day before stacking them.
• When posters are printed, dried, and stacked, you then bag the posters, label the brown paper bag with job name and quantity, then call the client for pickup.
• To count out large orders quickly, count a pile of 50 posters, then make more piles of the same thickness (you can feel them to see that they're level)
• Uneven inking can cause your poster to print incorrectly– it's not always uneven type.
• The press is usually equipped with a quoin key, tape, scrap paper (for leveling type), scissors, and tweezers– don't put any other junk in!

WHAT I DID

• Printed Historic Ryman Auditorium posters.

VOCABULARY FOR TODAY

• A common sense trim typically leaves 3 picas of margin around a trimmed poster.