We came in this morning and decided we needed our portraits with the press sheets from Day 1. It just seemed like it needed to be done. Nine stacks by our count.

Each stack has multiple layers of sheets all drying and waiting for the next step, printing the text, as a separate color plus a gloss varnish on the images.

Soon they had a press OK for the text and gloss varnish. This is the first time we've seen the text and photos on the page together. And with the gloss varnish on the images they seem to always look wet and pop off the page. VERY exciting to finally see the pages we have been planning for all these years!

This is Peter who shepherds our project through each step of the process. He also did not want to be photographed, but as you can see we did not care. Peter is great, and has a very nice English accent and a 2 month old son. And yet he hangs with us. Nice guy!

Each form needs an approval signature, or in this case my initials on the first page.

Once the OK is given they start the presses and the sheet fly through and yet somehow everything ends up perfectly aligned!

Every fifty sheets Ralph pulls a sheet and checks by hand the varnish and feels the coverage. Since it has no density a densitometer can not messure anything and only the craftsmanship of the pressman assures the quality of the varnish coat.

When not in the press room or looking at scans in the imaging room we are here at our desks working on the Dust Jacket and other details as we look out over the rolling hills of the Northeast Kingdom here in Vermont. Not a bad place to work, eh?