Laurie wrote:

 >One favourite trick of ink-jet printers is to develop a blocked
 >jet and this can do horrible things to horizontal lines of
 >staffs. You tend to notice them at gigs when you suddenly
 >realise the music is unreadable. Top or bottom lines are deadly,
 >but the in-between ones are pretty bad too. I thought that
 >photocopiers were immune to this, but I recently went to a
 >workshop where the chap who ran it (Dave Brown) had printed one
 >master copy of the music and photocopied it many times to hand
 >out to the participants. He described it as a "high quality"
 >photocopier. It must have been a really high-tech one that
 >rasterised the image. It also must have had the page
 >horizontally aligned to high precision because it managed to
 >lose staff lines. On one page you could actually see the line
 >fading out as it went across the page and on another (presumably
 >later) copy of the same page there was no trace of it at all.
 >
 >A little mis-alignment would have worked wonders!

To me it sounds much more likely that the flaw was in the master copy.
Are you sure this wasn't the case?

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