A note to editors

If you're given a draft of something, and it has a big note at the top saying, "sorry about the odd random italics, but my printer's strange, and it can be fixed," if you then go mark every single instance of wrong italics in red and write notes next to them, it doesn't really give confidence that you're actually paying attention.

Comments

[R. Alex]

I work on documents at work. Our print engine can't handle certain things (underlines over three inches, for instance) and so things invariably come out looking different from the Original (the clien't original document that we're trying to emulate for them). The proofers here know this and yet insist on spending half their time highlighting the underline breaks and other print-engine limitations. I think they just feel that they wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't at least point it out.