Calendar Girl Blog: Prince of Printing
Ron Ingle from Barney Printing in Woodstock, Ontario is my Prince of Printing. I list him so in my calendar credits. Talented, professional, funny and charming, Ron has been involved in the Breast of Canada calendar project from the get go. I think of him as an integral player in the process beyond simply giving me paper quotes. He's on the Breast Team.
When press time rolls around, so does my anticipation of working with and seeing Ron.
Yesterday afternoon was my first face to face for this year. Ron personally delivered, to my door, the press proof copy of the 2006 calendar. Gallant and princely as ever, his smile beaming from ear to ear, Ron handed over the culmination of months of creative vision and work from dozens of people.
Every year I'm overwhelmed....with excitement, relief, hope and fear. Will people like it? Will it sell? Will it speak?
For those of you who don't know what a press proof is, please allow me to explain. Yah see, even though I have two professional proofers; my grade five teacher friend Katie also known as Queen of Grammer, and Kathe, the graphic design owner from electric pear, who sees spaces where no space should be; we sometimes miss stuff. Mistakes. Things that make a calendar kind of useless like too many days in a month or three Mondays in a week. Or reference to Beast of Canada.
The press proof is the actual sized, cut and constructed proto-type of the finished calendar. My job is to do one or several thousand, final checks of this single copy before putting my signature on the cover. This motion of pen to paper signals that it's time to roll the presses.
Big stuff for a calendar publisher.
Ron has delivered all my press proofs. In fact, on the first calendar, he invited me into the printers plant to sign off on the 'in motion' print job. I knew it was a sign when it was MY breast photo whipping over the giant drums.
So here I sit, typing this post in my living room. Sun is streaming in. And BoC 2006 is sitting at my feet.
It's bloody beautiful.
Calendar Girl
When press time rolls around, so does my anticipation of working with and seeing Ron.
Yesterday afternoon was my first face to face for this year. Ron personally delivered, to my door, the press proof copy of the 2006 calendar. Gallant and princely as ever, his smile beaming from ear to ear, Ron handed over the culmination of months of creative vision and work from dozens of people.
Every year I'm overwhelmed....with excitement, relief, hope and fear. Will people like it? Will it sell? Will it speak?
For those of you who don't know what a press proof is, please allow me to explain. Yah see, even though I have two professional proofers; my grade five teacher friend Katie also known as Queen of Grammer, and Kathe, the graphic design owner from electric pear, who sees spaces where no space should be; we sometimes miss stuff. Mistakes. Things that make a calendar kind of useless like too many days in a month or three Mondays in a week. Or reference to Beast of Canada.
The press proof is the actual sized, cut and constructed proto-type of the finished calendar. My job is to do one or several thousand, final checks of this single copy before putting my signature on the cover. This motion of pen to paper signals that it's time to roll the presses.
Big stuff for a calendar publisher.
Ron has delivered all my press proofs. In fact, on the first calendar, he invited me into the printers plant to sign off on the 'in motion' print job. I knew it was a sign when it was MY breast photo whipping over the giant drums.
So here I sit, typing this post in my living room. Sun is streaming in. And BoC 2006 is sitting at my feet.
It's bloody beautiful.
Calendar Girl
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