Mr.
Halpern episode 1 as recalled by Mr. Bob Gumbinner
Mr.
Halpern several times signed contracts without any concern for “What
If”. He assumed that everything would go as he expected. When I
pointed out the possibility that the products would not work, he
still signed the contracts and it cost us money to cancel them. Two
of these that I remember were with a German firm for rubber blankets
for the offset presses and with an Italian firm for a number of
solutions to be used for printing processes. He was about to sign a
contract to distribute masking tape in the USA with an English
manufacturer when Ray Lauzon put a piece of the tape along with a
piece of 3M tape on a presensitized plate and put the plate in an
exposure frame. When the plate was developed, the 3M tape place was
clean, the new tape picked up some of the red lacquer. The tape
representative could not understand this since he had been selling
the tape without complaints. I explained to him that these customers
were taping the black part of the negatives to the masking sheets and
could have use transparent tape. The English manufacturer then
changed the dyes and we successfully sold the tape.