Experienced technical difficulties

Well in case you missed it... we were experiencing technical difficulties last week here at the Record.... actually it was at our printing plant, the Fort Frances Times.
Late last Monday I received a call from our publisher explaining that a machine that converts our pages (done on computer) to giant negatives was down. In the old days (about twelve years ago) I used to lay the pages out on paper and a giant camera was used to shoot negatives of the pages.
Then I went to the first image setter the Times had and discovered that while doing the paper on the computer (i.e. skipping the paper layout step) was easier, that image setter was a real challenge to use. Then the Times bought the machine we use now and it was amazing. It allowed me to preview the pages and would tell me when something would not work on them and if all was well spit a negative out in a few minutes rather than 20 to 30 mins.
However, the saying I have heard the most over the years is, “Computers (technology) is great as long as it works.” Well last week it did not work and we had to improvise.
My publisher sent our pages over to International Falls Daily Journal to have negatives made. Some of the pages had to be reflowed using similar versions of typefaces and unfortunately that caused some text to be bumped from our pages. I could not see the pages before they were output and the final result was we were missing two lines off the front page story on Kreger Sales and a word from a headline on the author John Bouchard. The lines on Kreger Sales gave his business hours, which fortunately appeared elsewhere in the paper in an ad. The other blooper saw the word “book” bumped off the end of the line... he “authored kids’ book” not “kids’”. Thank you for bearing with us and please accept our apologies for any confusion this caused.
–Until then, Ken