Do not adjust your set...

Ken Johnston

While we do not see that as often on television like we did a few decades ago when technical difficulties were almost as common as commercials, it does pop up from time to time.
Well last week we had technical difficulties at the Record and ultimately at the printing plant in Fort Frances. When that happens we all take a deep breath and hope that we can get the paper out in some acceptable form for you to read.
Well we squeaked it out, thanks to technical help from our boss, Jim Cumming... thanks Jim.
After the paper was put to bed we almost immediately began working a new way to get our pages to the printing plant and a way to get them to come off looking as good as before our technology problem arose.
I spoke to Jim Cumming at length and we put together a potable solution.
On Thursday I went and had a crash course (thanks Rosanne) at the Fort Frances Times on how to get the pages there and how to output them to a device called an image setter. It makes giant film negatives of our pages which are then used to burn images onto metal plates.
After a couple of test runs on Thursday I felt fairly confident that we could do this.
Well the proof is in the pudding and if you are reading this and it looks good then everything went well (knock on wood).
If it has a few glitches in it please bear with us as we work them out over the next few weeks.
Computers are great and for the past 17 years we have seen many changes in them. This is yet another one and given how the past ones have smoothed out (sometimes quickly and sometimes not so quick) we will get through it and you won’t notice too many interruptions to your service.

–Until then,
Ken