Tuesday backtowork
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ksmithBut, the manuscript has been shipped to Editor.
Printing proved a bit of an adventure.
I was a little concerned since this was the first time I used the HP1100 off of the iMac with the parallel:USB cable and the scavenged Mac-compatible drivers. The hiccup at the 294-page point occurred when the HP choked on the lists of comments that it tried to print. I use the Word Comment function to make notes to myself in the body of the manuscript. At one point, I had tried to print out comments for another story, and had enabled the Print Comments/Hidden Text option in Preferences. I don't know what triggered the urge to print the ENDGAME comments at that particular point, but it stopped the printing dead. When I tried to restart, I got Comments in an array of fonts. Stopped everything, deleted the job, and remembered that I had enabled printing comments and went back and unchecked that tickybox.
I then picked up the printing where it left off. Made it to Chapter 32, at which point I checked the header and saw that the page numbering was printing out as "1". Each page was numbered "1". Stopped the printing again, swearing not-so-softly. Brute-forced the right page numbers and started printing again. Then I remembered that if you print a file via Master Doc, you need to close the base file itself during printing orallthepageswillbenumberedaspage1. I've had this happen before. But, it's been a while since I printed an ms, which led to the old "experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake after you repeat it."
Anyway. ENDGAME is printed and the kinks are worked out and the next round should go better (fingers crossed). I will say again that I am glad I was able to get the HP1100 up and running with the iMac. It's been three years since that printer kicked out anything as big as a manuscript, and the physical side of the printing went as well as you please. No uneven toner. No smearing. No multiple pages stuck in the feeder (although it did help that the humidity was high and the paper easy to handle). The odd toner speck, but I think that's to be expected.
End-of-book feeling is just now starting to hit. The fact that while I had to print last night, I didnt have to write. That I don't have to write tonight, that this story that has been living in my head for three years is finally, *finally* down on paper. I didn't get a real sense of closure with this book since I wrote it out of sequence. Even ending with the Epilogue didn't help. Never got a good sense of The End. Now, two days after the fact, I think I finally may be getting it.
Printing proved a bit of an adventure.
I was a little concerned since this was the first time I used the HP1100 off of the iMac with the parallel:USB cable and the scavenged Mac-compatible drivers. The hiccup at the 294-page point occurred when the HP choked on the lists of comments that it tried to print. I use the Word Comment function to make notes to myself in the body of the manuscript. At one point, I had tried to print out comments for another story, and had enabled the Print Comments/Hidden Text option in Preferences. I don't know what triggered the urge to print the ENDGAME comments at that particular point, but it stopped the printing dead. When I tried to restart, I got Comments in an array of fonts. Stopped everything, deleted the job, and remembered that I had enabled printing comments and went back and unchecked that tickybox.
I then picked up the printing where it left off. Made it to Chapter 32, at which point I checked the header and saw that the page numbering was printing out as "1". Each page was numbered "1". Stopped the printing again, swearing not-so-softly. Brute-forced the right page numbers and started printing again. Then I remembered that if you print a file via Master Doc, you need to close the base file itself during printing orallthepageswillbenumberedaspage1. I've had this happen before. But, it's been a while since I printed an ms, which led to the old "experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake after you repeat it."
Anyway. ENDGAME is printed and the kinks are worked out and the next round should go better (fingers crossed). I will say again that I am glad I was able to get the HP1100 up and running with the iMac. It's been three years since that printer kicked out anything as big as a manuscript, and the physical side of the printing went as well as you please. No uneven toner. No smearing. No multiple pages stuck in the feeder (although it did help that the humidity was high and the paper easy to handle). The odd toner speck, but I think that's to be expected.
End-of-book feeling is just now starting to hit. The fact that while I had to print last night, I didnt have to write. That I don't have to write tonight, that this story that has been living in my head for three years is finally, *finally* down on paper. I didn't get a real sense of closure with this book since I wrote it out of sequence. Even ending with the Epilogue didn't help. Never got a good sense of The End. Now, two days after the fact, I think I finally may be getting it.
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Date: 2006-10-03 04:38 pm (UTC)And commiserations on the printing difficulties. Somehow the printer knows when it really counts--I always have at least one major hiccup every time I go to print a "final" manuscript copy.
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Date: 2006-10-03 05:20 pm (UTC)I always have at least one hiccup during printing. The Printer Knows. I do have a back up printer, the Inkjet All-in-1, but the idea of listening to 750+ pages worth of *wooshwooshwooshwoosh* would be enough to drive me to the local Office Max for a new laser printer.
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