Lino

Evidently, AP's full-colour, shinily printed, occasionally properly-hued pages could not be extrapolated from fuzzy laser-writer printouts. What the printers needed was film - a sort of photo-negative of each page, with a separate sheet for each of the colours Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key (or black) - and where they got this was from lino.

Lino, the domain of the Linotype Machines and operators who were quite possibly being exposed to heavy lead emissions or something, was a strange and unholy place where the normal laws of the universe did not apply.

Laws like "What you put on the page shall be put on the film," for example.

Y'see, despite costing around thirty thousand pounds apiece, the Linotype Machines, wittily named by the manufacturers Linotype Hells, could be brought down rousing-sport-movie-like by the smallest thing. An unusual font, perhaps, or a circle.

The tireless lino folk (being at the end of the production cycle, they would often get a magazine's entire run of pages at once, and therefore worked 24-hour shifts) would scan pages vigilantly for faults, correcting them on their own initiative or pointing out your error if larger changes needed to be made. If you'd all gone home by that point, they'd even come up to your office and do it for you. Splendid chaps all, and we'd certainly shake them warmly by the hand were it not for those heavy lead emissions or whatever.

But, being machines that cost thirty thousand pounds and therefore entitled to act as they pleased, the Linotypes would occasionally take pages that looked perfectly fine on screen, on paper and on early batches of film, and for the final output play a funny joke and make screenshots vanish, or invert pictures, or lose bits of text, or print "I am the Emporer of Hurt" in 128-point LB Helvetica Black diagonally across the cover.

Usually, of course, we intercepted these funny jokes, or by ingenious use of pens and scoring with scalpels corrected the spelling to "Emperor," but, though rare, some false-ID'd past our custodians.

This explains any errors you think you may have seen in AMIGA POWER.

Yes. This seems plausible enough. Note: don't forget to remove this paragraph. That would be heavily ironic!

Oh no! What an internal misunderstanding!