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If your paper looked like mine this morning, the colors didn't exactly match up, causing the pictures and graphics to have a blurry look.

In fact, the color plates were out of register.

As you probably know, we create color in the paper by laying four layers of ink - red, blue, yellow and black - over one another. Each color is printed with a separate plate.

When we printed today's paper, the plates weren't lined up properly. The problem was the plate "bender," which prepares the flat plates for the rounded cylinders of the press.

Here's the note we received this morning from our production manager, Robin Semegen: "We had a failure on one of our plate benders last night. It was bending plates out of square. It was not noticable till they went to mount plates on the press at starter time. They had to remake 30 to 35 plates causing us to be late. And worse is the fact we are out of register on many of our copies we did produce."

So in addition to having some out of register papers, some may have been delivered late.

Robin tells me the problem has not been completely corrected, but adds: "We will just do a better job of monitoring so we catch it and correct it sooner than we did last night. Should be cleared up by Thursday."

Sorry for the problems. Thanks for your patience.