Dwarf Printing

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PORCELAIN BUTTERFLIES
by John Luna

The black, loose fitting night gown stretched down to the floor while a pair of wrinkled, shaking hands tightened a sash of mustard colored cloth. Paula Willows steps were more of an early morning shuffle as she skirted around the length of the bed to the other side. The soft curls of her white hair hung loosely on both shoulders and bounced with each of her steps. But while she arrived to her husband’s side, a low breath escaped her mouth.

Eyes white and round she stood like a shroud at the end of the plain, four post bed looking over the still form of her husband Damon Willows. The wrinkles on his brow looked scrunched up and angered like a constant scowl plastered upon his face. Each of the few gray hairs he had were upright and pointed in all directions while his thick, bushy eyebrows seemed to teeter on the edge of his heavy brow ridge. Even his chapped, pale lips seemed to be stretched up in a sneer of contempt for the new day.

Most mornings this was followed by Paula leaning down to wake her husband up. First she would cast aside the crisp, white linens in order to shake him awake. She always tried to get him moving early so he could get downstairs to take his morning medication along with his breakfast. But the ritual soon changed to him spitting out those carefully cooked scrambled eggs and swallowing the green and white pill among the cursing and snarls of hatred for her horrible cooking and incompetent behavior. In twenty years Paula had never been able to cook an edible breakfast for him.

Yet his yells and chosen words would soon fade into a low hum as Paula would struggle to fall to her aching knees and clean up the broken dish on the kitchen floor. How many had he broken this month? Five? Ten? She had a hard time keeping count. The thought of plastic plates always came around her mind, but they never looked as pretty as her porcelain, butterfly prints.

Paula had dearly loved butterflies. Ever since she was a little girl she would run out into the fields during the Spring to dance and twirl among them. Two or three would even fly close enough to land on her shoulder or on the top of her head. They were always so free.

But she was too old to do that anymore. These days she enjoyed collecting only porcelain versions of her winged friends. They sat quietly in her bedroom upon a top shelf, all in a row and shining various colors. Some days while Paula would nurse a freshly given bruise or split lip, she would spend practically all day staring at the miniature collection she had. In certain mornings the daylight would strike them at just the right pose and she could swear that they were alive. Fluttering around in front of her eyes, doing all sorts of loops and stopping to flap their tired wings on her nose.

But her intent staring wasn’t on her butterflies now. Her brown eyes were now focused on the unmoving form that lay in her bed. She had already tried to wake him repeatedly, but his face remained in that irate expression. There was no rise or fall of his chest underneath the blankets and the disturbing sound of his snores didn’t waft through the room like an out of control chainsaw anymore.

Yet, while Paula stared at Damon’s stiffened body, only a single tear welled up and rolled over her cheek. As it trickled down she glanced to the bedroom window to see a yellow and black butterfly fluttering around in the April morning light. Her one tear fell with barely a whisper on the hardwood floor with only silence to hear it.

THE END

In my local newspaper 3 days ago a strange animal was sighted and reported. In tonights paper a picture and confirmation of what the animal is has been printed.

I have never heard of it before! I thought it would be fun to have people guess what this animal is based on the description below. Good Luck!

When it stood up it was about 24 inches tall. It looked like a rabbit, but it did not have ears like a rabbit. It’s head is deer like.

It has a combination of short brown hair on the upper part of its body and has longer black hair with a white stripe like a skunk .

It’s body was small and more tube like, in comparison to its legs which are longer and slender. It was sitting in the middle of the road and drew alot of attention. It actually came right up to a couple of people.

People stopped and some took pictures. It did not seem to be afraid of people. When it decided to leave It ran as fast as a Gazelle springing away on all four feet.
As I said above it turned out to be an animal I have never seen or heard of before. The description of it is what the paper printed

I have a HP desktop and it is running windows xp. It freezing up on a constant basis. This prevents me from doing anything on the computer. I can surf the web for a short period of time. There is a hp laser printer connected to the computer but the moment I try to print a page, it freezes. I have Verizon security suite and have ran several times but nothing negative appears. I have also used the operating system scan and it also comes up negative. Does anyone have a recommendation on how to get the system working again with the printer?cw

Letterpress have high rejects during short runs. (color problem, bad register etc) Does anyone have any "standard guideline" for % reject. Eg for 10 metre run, what kind of % reject can we expect? for 100 metre, % reject etc.

Thank you.

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About every 1 to 1 1/2 inches it prints a vertically misaligned line. It doesn’t matter what program I am using or what I am printing. I have cleaned the heads, run the realignment utility numerous times and nothing helps. Or else it helps for a very short time, and then is right back to printing misaligned printouts again.

Also, we will not be using our CX6600 for a couple of months, so what should be done to keep it in decent working order when we return home.

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Hi, I’m an aspiring writer with big dreams. I love the horror and bizarre fantasy tale. Each stems from the dreams and nightmares I have. However, I don’t like modern publishers. First, I want to publish short stories. Modern publishers don’t like to print short stories or anthologies. They hate the risk. What right do a bunch of half bald, old white people in suits have to tell you what is art or what will sell? All that is up to the purchaser and besides, since they control what gets printed they could switch it around. They could only publish short stories or novels from any point of view and it would sell because its all about convincing the mind. I mean take a look at boy bands. The record companies took time to sell and convince everyone that boy bands are good and you should purchase their music (or lack their of), while so many independent musicians don’t get the time of day. It is unfair and not right. Art has already been pissed on.

My question is "Has anyone thought of creating their own book; binding, cover, everything?" I’m not talking about vanity publishing. I mean we have so much technology and the traditional publishing houses are pissing in their pants, scared about self publishing and the technology available to the new author because they know their pocket book will be rocked. So they put up borders to hinder or limit what independent authors can get. Sound familiar???? (hint: Goverment). Lastly there are self publishing authors who give real independent authors a bad name because most of their stuff shouldn’t have been printed in the first place. So again, has anyone thought of publishing the book themselves?: binding it, creating the cover, everything. I’ve seen some people who have created breath taking books out of snake skin, or of exotic quality. How beautiful?? And marketing, christ we have soo much shit on the internet it’s crazy. Anyone see where I’m coming from? And those people who have ’self published’ books with errors, run on sentences, holes in their story, keep on walking. When you print you are not only printing for yourself but for your potential readers. The readers should get their moneys worth. Thank you to everyone for reading my entire rant. lol. And I’m not sure who said this, maybe Ambrose Bierce, "An editor is merely a failed writer". Let the big name publishers put that in their pipe and smoke it!!!
My comment wasn’t made to make traditional publishers shake in their boots. I was just interested in knowing if anybody has thought about it. To me it is fun to know. I’ve seen some good ones. By your comment "They know something that you don’t" What did you mean by that. Thanks Vicky and enjoy your day.