I keep hearing a lot of people blame everything on bad paper. Whats the real problem?
A.: I understand the denial, because the paper mills are huge manufacturers that try to impart a sense of infallibility of their product. Their stance is that everything else is at fault. Rather than point any fingers, let me just give you my personal experience with a particular batch of paper. I wont tell the brand because paper mills manufacture paper for each other so theres no way to know who the real culprit is. I will say, though, that Colorado has been a test market for many years as well as a dumping ground for marginal products (makereadies, if you will). One issue of the Star Bulletin ran so well that I couldnt believe how things were running. Then the next issue ran so badly I thought somebody had sabotaged my press. A full day of trying many different fountain solutions accomplished nothing. I decontaminated the ink and water rollers and still the problem persisted. When I ran out of that batch of paper, things smoothed out within 500 sheets. The toning and picture framing
