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Editor:

I just received your June 2002 issue; I find the quality and professionalism of your magazine very good. However, I was very disappointed that, on the cover, it appears that you have used the character for "close quotes" instead of "inch mark" in your secondary cover line. Please note that these characters are not interchangeable.

Barbara Kubert Performance Resource Press, Inc., Troy, Mich.

Since the Helvetica font that we use for our secondary cover line has no specific character for an inch mark, we chose an appropriate character from the "Symbol" selection. It is not, however, the "close quotes" character; that one would look much like the single quote seen in the second line on the cover, which does not resemble an inch mark.

Thanks for the compliment and we hope you enjoyed the feature on 40" sheetfed presses.

Editor:

In her article "Awakening Web Offset" in your May 2002 issue, Debora Toth refers on page 29 to "unique eight-unit, single-web presses, which began to appear last summer."

The fact is, in 1992, Barry Green of International Lithographing installed an eight-unit Baker Perkins G14 web press in Philadelphia that we used for our high-end pharmaceutical clients. We modified the original two-web G14 to run a single web with eight colors on each side. It printed some beautiful jobs.

Steve Bachovin sbachovin@egpp.com

Editor:

I would like to locate any companies that manufacture open-faced vacuum frames. Perhaps your readers might know this information.

Bill Fink photomould@earthlink.net