Both are probably at fault to a degree. Nothing L-S did would have added photos of kids from other schools.

LS would have had to approve the final copy before print. I think that, in the end, this was the school districts fault. The printer could make the mistakes but the school district is acting as if they have some responsibility leading me to believe they approved incorrect copy and pictures.

If it was the printers mistake, believe me, they could have been forced to provide new year books. The fact that this isn't happening says LS to me.

If there are whole sections of another school's stuff in there, I can't see how that would happen without the printer being at fault. After working in printing and advertising, I can tell you that almost anything can be screwed up at the printer. All you need is some bad prepress file management, and...

But, then again, I guess almost anything's possible on the school's end if things were rushed through without checking them well. That's one expensive and important book not to check, though....

Unless things have changed, L-S always did a regular supplement, distributed in the fall, that covered the prom, graduation, spring sports, and would probably include a tribute to a senior who died after the original book went to press.

Don't know when they started or stopped that, but there was no such thing when I attended LSHS in 1993-1994, and I stayed friends with several people who never recieved such a thing in the subsequent three years as far s I know.

I discussed this with my brother, who has worked in publishing for 15+ years. The pics of the kids from other schools are the fault of the publisher-they probably got pages mixed up while printing multiple schools at once. But text errors, mislabled pics, etc., fall on the school. The printers don't read the things they're printing and edit them, they print what they are given. ANd usually before the final product is printed, a proof is sent to the client for approval. SO, as far as textual errors, someone at LS dropped the ball and didnt edit and proofread their copy.