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The making of ‘het kan hooguit mislukken’ 

On a later moment the image will be added.

== The brief ==
Design a word/phrase you appreciate/funny/ weird in the Dutch language. 
Design the text and add a translation and a brief explanation.
Print at least 15 copies in your favorite printing technique on A5 size orientation and paper choice free.

== The concept ==
The phrase that I use quit a lot to convince myself or others to do stuff that is difficult 
/exciting/challenging or to try out stuff that you never done before. 
'het kan hooguit mislukken’ the worst thing that can happen is the it can fail.

== How to design? == 
at the moment my favorite printing technique or more my favorite printer is a daisywheel printer that I found on marktplaats and  picked up last year (2022) the brand is Brother and the type is em-701fx it’s from the nighties. 

It uses a daisy like wheel that prints letters on paper though impact mostly know for the use in typewriters. I also find a daisywheel typewriter with a printer connection. This one I going to use for this edition. 

It is a challenge is to make a design  if you only aloud to uses letters  the Typewriter has on its daisywheel. I was thinking about some kind of code. I always liked html with css. So I a designed a page in html with inline css very basic simple white on black. To annoy graphic designers it is alway fun to use comic sans as a font. 

This design reminds me at the first publication station logo it only needs a 🌈 gradient. That’s easy to do in css so I did. 

== Proof print ==
Now I have one text file so let’s print. I have a laptop with Linux installed the and the typewriter instals as line printer. The command ’lpr -P’ sends the file to the printer and the starts printing. 
The printer did not print the ‘<>’ karakters so it wasn’t possible to print the complete html file. 

Other options to consider print it with a matrixprinter but that’s not as cool as the daisywheel or in letterpress . I really want to use the daisywheel. 
Print with out ‘<>’ ? At it later with pen.  Or replace the <> with other characters? Not an option for me so I come up with a pseudo code I stripped al the tags and adjust I so if it is as a machine could render the code. 
 
== the paper ==
In 'Grafisch Atelier Minnigh' I found a stack of heavy paper 300gr/m I like to use for my prints the challenge was to feed it through the printer because it is a bit to sturdy. During the production I found out that it helps to feed the paper completely to the rol and than feed it again. 

== Production ==

Working on this part. 

Print 15 times. 

For cutting the paper I use my rol knife but this was to blunt for the paper. First I thought I just to roughly cut the paper and than trim it at the big guillotine. The aesthetic I liked so much finally I used the blunt roll knife to trim the paper to the correct size after printing   

== Singing the print ==
The appropriate thing to me to sing this print with stamps. I have my own stamp wicht I used to sign my work at the beginning of my career. And always use a dark purple colour. 
As a gift I also have a Chinese stamp with traditional Chinese ink I like the ecstatics of the red and the square shape  it got me thinking to make a stamp as a QR-code stamp it on the right side under the print. 

I choose to not hand sign and number the edition.
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