Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-09-03
FRIDAY, SEPT. 3, 1920
AND THEY GOT 1T


will be more interested in the amount of the
prizes than in any mechanical artistic merits de-
merits of the book ITSELF still it will have to be most
undiscrimnating person, indeed, and one totally de-
void of any knowledge of the printing art appre-
citation for symmetry and proportion, who will not
stop to wonder how such piece of work to be
turned out for fair to be held in Cedar City. the
home of real prntery. And for their enlighten-
ment. we are going to say just few words on this
subject.
First of ALL inasmuch as the printer was evidently
ashamed to place his imprint upon the job we want
to fervently dsclaim it or having anything to do with
its production The publicity committee for the fair
obtained our quotation on the book, which is iden-
tcaly the same as charged by nine out Of ten print
ers in the lnter-Mountain country. given in the
Franklin Printers price book. But the committee,
or majority of the members composing it. wanted
cheap job" and printer was found not one hun
dred miles from here who was willing and anxious to
accommodate them And they got it. From front
cover to the advertisement on the back it is work
worthy of place in Chinese museum. Ii a more
ridiculous type selection and arrangement for the
front cover is possible it would take ingen-
ious person than our Office affords to design it. Ii
is printed with margin OF one inch on one side OF
the page and of fourth of an inch on the other II
we looked no further. the front page is enough to
make the book a positive disgrace and an insult to
the home printery to have it circulated advertising
fair to be held here But the front page is only a
fair sample of the work which comprises the entire
book. The type is old and worn. The pages have
been shrunken and reduced in size from the spech-
cations submitted and on which the contract was
awarded Type pages are out OF center, fed, folded
and trimmed crooked. The advertisements are I'M
graceful and badly displayed if. indeed. they can be
the best feature of the effort. is at best only medi-
OGRE. Some of the pages are garbled and misplaced,
requiring insert sign board to direct the reader
where we go from here Taken all in all. it is a
monument to the memory OF the plant which pro-
duced it, though evidently one with which it did not
care to be branded.
II is not that we were overanxious about the job,
for there hasn't been minute that we haven't had
all that we could do. Even now we are late with the
paper because we have been engrossed too long in
the job department But can local business men af-
ford to lend themselves to deal so manifesty sense
less and unfair as this? Can the committee afford
to send out piece of printing so wholly crude and
mrepreSentative of the community as this pamph-
let, when local concern has invested capital in mod
machinery and is equipped both with materials
and skilled workmen to do good workp Had our price
been serious overcharge, it would have been diff
terent thing. But it wasn't; it was standard The
quotation was given from the same schedules which
the printer performing the work boastfully states in
the last copy of Publishers Auxiliary printers trade
journal. that he uses. The price asked was no more
than this same printer charged his own people fol
the same kind of job last year.
1t is the policy of some people, not only in the
printing trade, but in nearly every walk of life where
bidding or contracting is done, to submit low bic
and then cheaper the job by every artihce and sub
terfuge possible that in the end the purchaser gets
just about what he pays for. Our prices contem
plate good work and we will not stoop to sighting
piece Of work, even if it is taken for less than it is
worth: In this Office quality is of first Importance
Price is secondary.
Last week while in Salt Lake we were greeted by
Prin Roy F. Homer of the B. A. c., for whom we
recently turned out an edition of 5000 catalogues
comprising about 20 pages to the book, 43 pages
of which were haf-tone cuts of the school and its
activities. AS we recall his words they were about