I lost 50 copies of my zine at a Kinkos in Portland last week

I was printing a run of 100 copies of my new zine about dumpster diving in the PNW. I set them by the self serve machine while I went to grab a drink from the machine. Came back 5 minutes later and some guy had tossed them all in the recycling bin because he thought they were trash. I had to fish 50 slightly damp copies out of that bin. Has anyone else had a printing disaster like this at a chain copy shop?

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karen27522d ago

Five minutes seems like a pretty short window for someone to decide a stack of freshly printed papers is trash and toss them. I've left stuff at Kinkos for way longer and nobody touched it. Also, were the copies damp or did you just say that for effect? You could have just grabbed a dry stack from the remaining 50 and called it a day (and saved yourself the recycling bin fishing expedition).

angela_knight22d ago

Yeah, I gotta push back a little on the "freshly printed papers" thing. Copier toner doesn't fully set for like 20 to 30 minutes sometimes, especially if it's a high-speed machine and the paper is still warm. So five minutes later, those pages can still be smudgy and weirdly damp feeling, not like wet wet but just off. I've had that happen where I grab a stack that's been sitting for a bit and the toner actually flakes off on my fingers. It's not the same as waiting for a regular print job from your home printer.