Defying Conventional Wisdom About Printing
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And, finally, amidst the recent headlines in the general press about the major fire in a warehouse at Quad/Graphics' Lomira, WI, facility, there was one other, less-noticed news item that had a graphic arts tie-in. One century ago, Willis H. Carrier—just a year out of college and working for $10 a week at Buffalo Forge Co.—invented air conditioning. One of Buffalo Forge's clients, the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographic & Publishing Co. in Brooklyn, had a problem: The paper it used for printing jobs, including a popular humor magazine of the period, was expanding and contracting in the summer heat and humidity. This created all kinds of registration and other print-related issues.
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