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A clipboard pack has to survive the copier beside the kettle

· Priya Nair

A box van with its rear doors open at a loading point

Wall boards earn their keep in the transport office. The person who walks the apron still needs four sheets that fit a clipboard: yesterday’s running, today’s VOR, inspection due, spare cover.

I set those sheets to the printer that is actually in the office. Margins that look generous on a large screen will clip on an old copier. Tom Ellis in Somerset sent a photograph of the first pad; we reset the margin the same week. That is ordinary print work, not a new product.

If your copier only likes A4, say so before we draw the pack. A plotter-size board and a pocket pad are different jobs. Mixing them in one PDF is how night staff stop updating anything.