Printed Item of the week - 04.10.09

Its not always the best piece of print that gets highlighted, as this week's item graphically demonstrates; Sometimes print manufacturing operations do not always go to plan for a whole multitude of reasons and episodes. However, what separates the good from the bad and ugly is weather the fault in print production is an ordinary oversight or an extra ordinary series of events. This weeks printed item is the match day programme for Peterborough United home match against Notts Forest. Beautifully presented A5 or that new handbag size that no longer fits snuggly in the football thugs harrision jacket inside breast pocket, but is a marriage made in heaven  for the glove box of the latest Range Rover Series; a positive sign of the times, I am not quite sure!!! On closer inspection we see a perfect bound document (or PUR for those clever sods out there!) with 98 pages of text with 4 pages of cover. The print quality is of the top order with the three knife trimmer working well with good page finishing across all sections. HOWEVER!!, why did I of all people get the duff copy. Where page 1 should be I had page 19, backed up not with page 20, which would make some sense, but with page 4. Page 5 appearing after page 4 was then backed up with page 22. And the mystery continued with a similar  theme, until we reached  the third page 19, when the pagination settled down and we go on a roll all the way through to the end. Not going to expose the printer, but am totally baffled about the back ups. You know what I think is that a reprint was ordered by the production manager after pagination error was found and a few copies made their way through to London Road. Had posh finished off Notts Forest 10-1 for example then maybe this may have found its way onto ebay. Sadly that wasn't the case, indeed couldn't have been further from the truth. 2-1 down at 90 minutes.