Printing Quality of ISSUE # 5

[Alex]

This is a note to all subscribers;

The Kendo World Team is very distressed to hear that the quality of the printing leaves a lot to be desired in the most recent issue.

It seems that despite all of our hard work to make Kendo World a QUALITY and informative publication, the people we pay to print it have different ideas. Since receiving feedback from some subscribers informing us of the sub-standard printing, we have requested that they all be redone immediately. We are not sure at this stage how many magazines were messed up, but we will be changing printers for the next issue.

If you are disastisfied with the quality of your magazine's appearance, please notify us and we will send you a another in its place.

We apologise for any inconvenience but hope that you bear with us. :(

A heart-broken Alex and Hamish and the Kendo World Team

[blur]

Hi Alex,

That's a pain! Are you able to suggest what complaints you have had, so that people can check their mags and let you know whether they have experienced similar?

Eg: People have complained that the picture on page "x" is blurry

I've got to say that I've flicked through the issue and nothing extraordinary stood out to me - and I'm the ex-editor of a number of Australasian IT print titles so huge mistakes tend to stand out to me!

Still, I haven't seen KW before, so I will flag upfront that don't know what to compare it to, either! If you told me, for example, that all the pages should be in colour, then Houston we might have a problem ;)

So, to reiterate, some examples of problems flagged with you would be great so we can give you feedback. You might find that the early copies off the press have problems which later printings don't - that's just the nature of printing presses!

Still, if this is widespread and the problems are significant, I trust the printer is going to redo the job for free! If not, I'm sure your business can go elsewhere! With my old contacts, I could try and find you a tasty Aussie deal.

[Alex]

cheers mate!

Here's an example:

"Two or three of the pages have the print of the opposite page superimposed or in one case bled through from the other side rendering the affected pages unreadable. "

Also, we are unhappy with the tone of the printing. Too light in some places etc.

This may have affected only a few mags. As we don't know the extent yet, we just have to wait for feedback. Hopefully there wont be much!

[PhilMcLaughlin]

Dear Team

Im sorry to hear about this but I just went through my copy, cover to cover and its perfect

You cant take the blame for quality problems at the printers

Thanks for all your hard work - the mag and the site have had a definite, positive impact

well done that team !

[Jerry Wellbrock]

My magazine seems fine. I will double check it but I have read about half of it word for word and just had an eye exam this week. Doc said the eyes were in great shape and color vision was great too. Magazine looked good to me. Jerry:old_man: With good eyes!

[Nishi]

No probs here either, everything is high standard as usual!

[Hongsermeier]

I can find no problems with mine.

[KhawMengLee]

All good here:D

[Karaken]

I don't have any missing pages but starting at page 68, photo quality start to drop. P78, 79 are bad but P84 and 85 is so bad you can barely make out ( with Ghosting Shadowes and all ).
Well, I don't need Naginata picture so badly, so you don't have to send another one but thought you'd like to know.

Center has no bad pictures..

[Charlie]

Mine's good. These things happen. Believe me, printers are used to apologizing. (I used to work in the ad industry - oi vey!)

[hamish]

Hi Karaken,

Actually most of those, especially the naginata ones were done on purpose (artistic license!!)

:)

Hamish