favour

Friday, January 31,2020

A tall balding man with reddish hair

enters the office after a robust knock. He is

one of the machinists from the shops downstairs,

he needs something to be printed:

Offer him a seat, he pulls out his mobile

phone, and shows a picture. It is the Fair

Trade logo, he wants a print of it for

his young son. It is a school project, They

have a small cafe in the school, and they

want to use the logo.

No problem, a few clicks later and

the logo is on the screen. Copy the file

into the print queue into the connection

to the machine in the basement, and

that is it.
The redheaded mechanic is

amused by the fact that the logo depicts ahuman figure holding out a hand when it is in black and white.

Later on, at the printer, the picture is scaled to suit the requirements, and is printed. It is pixelled, but the children

want to trace it, so the poor rendition

is not critical.

The whole operation is just a favour.

Not really licit, but no harm.

And a good deed to start the day.