Slightly off topic advice from a Canon accredited copier tech – ditch the iR3170C!

I did not say it was brilliant – we’re about to update!

I’d be really grateful if you could explain this to me in simple terms.

I’ll try…. but this is still sorta complex!

QuarkXPress (“Quark”) – is a computer application for creating and editing complex page layouts in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment. It runs on MAC OS X and Windoze.

The most recent version is QuarkXPress 8.5 and it allows publishing in English (“International and U.S.”) and 36 other languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, German, Korean, Russian, French, and Spanish.

CMYK Photoshop – is what is regarded as the ‘Full’ version of this imaging software, processing and printing in four colours (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) sooner than the ‘Lite’ more simpler RBG three colour system.

Quad Core Macs – a processor with four cores, for higher speed processing.
Fiery RIP – a RIP (Raster Image Processor) is software takes your image and text and tells the wide format printer where and how to place each squirt of ink on the paper. The PostScript (from Adobe or an emulation from Harlequin or comparable) tells the printer how to make the alphanumeric portion of your text look nice (eliminates the jaggies). It also acts a data buffer to ensure quicker, and repeatable printing. They usually incorporate their own hard drives and ‘firmware’ for data processing.

SRA-3 – oversized A3 paper size used so as to be able to ‘trim down’ to A3.

Canon iR3170C – a four colour digital printer, now about 3 years old. Prints 33 black and white or 7 colour SRA3 ‘sides’ per minute. Note, although this sounds obvious, a sheet of paper has two ‘sides’

Duplexing – prints on both sides automatically.

Lamininated covers – a shiny, plastic coating. Domestic use is by using ‘pockets’ fed through a heater machine. Industry standard is using a machine that looks something like a mangle, with two heater bars that heats up (to around 200 deg C) two rolls plastic film that has heat-setting adhesive that is applied both sides of the cover, then pressed to the paper by rollers. We use two rolls at a time, 300 metres in length, and this can be used all in one go for large laminating runs.

Thank you folks for your comments so far!

I, like you, were well aware of the ‘restrictions’ on the UK buying dollar items just after the war, but what surprised me was that the Congressman was directly quoted as blaming the ARB for it. As someone suggested, this could may have been through some research assistant mis-interpreting something, but it does seen very specific.

By the way, according to the biographic directory of the US Congress and some other sources, Lester Lionel Wolff (born 4 January 1919) was a Democratic member of the House of Representatives for New York.
He was born in NYC and after studying at New York University he lectured there from 1939 until 1941. Wolff served in the Civil Air from 1945 until 1950 and from 1968 until 1980. He was elected to Congress in 1964 and served from 3 January 1965 until 3 January 1981. Through redistricting he initially represented the 3rd District from 1965-1973 and the 6th District from 1973-1981. He lost his bid for re-election to John Le Boutiller in the 1980 election. LeBoutillier was later defeated in a bid for re-election and served only one term. Former Chairman of the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control in the Congress, Wolff then became advisor to the Burmese embassy in the US.

The DH Comet aspect I am sure relates to the Comet 4, not Comet 1s. Again, to put things into better context, this forms part of a series of items in Presidental and CIA papers where Robert McNamara and others such as John McCone, the Director of the CIA were discussing ways of using the airworthiness certification process within the FAA to greatly delay or even halt granting such documentation to Concorde to allow the American SST to ‘catch up or even overtake’ – to paraphrase things ‘…in a manner similar to what was done with the Comet for the 707’.

For those that know the reference, learning to understand how Sir Humphrey Appleton’s mind – and verbal athletic abilities – works I find most useful!

I started this thread because I discovered something I had not heard before – I certainly am not making any new claims!

To me – this forum is about sharing stuff…. if *I* dont know something – it’s a fair bet that there are others out there in the same boat!

As for the Putnams comments – I have found SOOOOOOOO many errors in them – likewise with some of the other, older works by ‘famous’ authors. I’m not putting the boot into them – they were good at the time, but sadly in many cases with the surfacing of new, previously undisclosed information, they have never been revised – or worse, revised after the original authors passing by someone that did not know enough!

As for my CV…. if I place it here I’ll get pulled up for advertising!