1st major mistake... :(

[prepress_brillance_43]

Originally Posted by duck

We seem to have more of those kinds of mistakes at this shop than any I've ever workerd for. Yet for all my fighting over procedures, the owner runs the show, and we rush stuff through all the time with no final proof (always his call - and I always comment on it).

Here's one I'll never forget (from a previous shop). 2 color door hangers for a glass company - files supplied as Illy EPS - all different builds of color. So as I re-color everything in the file, 50,000 peices are printed and delivered before anyone notices that 1 (one) of the little lines of the barcode is missing. All that time I spent fixing thier file, and I missed ONE FREAKIN skinny little line - and of course the barcode doesn't work without ALL of the stupid little lines.

Ahhhh.... memories. And I'll probably be able to report on another new mistake before this day is over!

that sounds like the shop I used to work for that closed their doors back in april.... but then again our owner was smoking a bunch of that "Ice" stuff that floats around the print biz so much...(no one knew he was smoking until it was too late, $175,000 in the hole to the paper vendors ALL OVER dallas.)


on another note... a $36,000 mistake 8O do you have ANY idea how many jobs have to run for the profit from those jobs to pay for that mistake?? :x

that could drive anyone(as an owner) nuts!!

[Sparky]

Seems that on a monthly basis I get hammered over an InDesign conversion error!!

last came yesterday, got a 2/color invitation card from some ad agency (ha) in Quark 3.1 no less) opened it in Quark 4.1 (Classic mode) made sure the fonts were open and the images were linked properly and saved it to Q4.1. Opened it in InDesign CS2 and visually checked it out as well as printed both comp and seps to the laser. looks OK give it to the CSR and he says "Plate it" job gets run AND DELIVERED!!! 8O , and today the CSR come in to me and shows me the white stroke on the path the main title text was set on 8O 8O 8O so I opened the original Quark document and there was the path, selected it and it said stroke "none", opened the ID document and clicked on the path and it said the path was set to .5pt white stroke (more) 8O 8O 8O InDesign stroked the path in the process of the conversion, you can see it on the monitor on both documents but it went to press with the path stroked white... :cry: :cry: ops: ops:

can't wait to see what additional screw-ups ID does to QXP documents...

[seratne]

Sparky, that's more of a picnic problem than anything else.

I messed up a job the other day though. Typical 64p book, but bindery wanted it layed out foot to foot so that it would be easier to insert a map into it. So I had bindery make a folding dummy. The dummy was laid out wrong, and I didn't pay attention to it, cuz well, it was coming from the bindery and they know what they're doing. So, I made 30 plates, and the 3rd shift pressman ran 14,000 sheets on the first form. From now on, no new "special" layouts just because bindery thinks it will save them time.

[Lammy]

Originally Posted by DCurry

After being perfect for a long time (just kidding), I had a couple of doozies recently:

1. Fixed the spelling of a word in an Illustrator EPS map. Closed and saved, went to press. Job printed (6 colors plus spot varnish), then it was folded and shipped to Rome, Italy. THEN someone in Italy noticed that all the spaces in the map that I worked on had turned into question marks. Still don't know why exactly, but we had to reprint and pay for the shipping overseas.

Dunno is someone answered this already or not, but in CS2 if you open a font AFTER you've opened the file all the spaces turn to question marks. Gets me all the time.

[Eyetech]

wE nevere mike mastikes in our cumpani :wink:

[jun]

shit always happen in our field.specially if we are pressured and beating deadlines.we have to be carefull.

[Joe]

The mother of all mistakes I've seen was back in 2000. I used to work for Quebecor World and we printed Good Housekeeping magazine. One issue, our department but not me, accidentally got page 121 into the book twice and no page 122. They ran over 800 thousand copies befor anyone noticed. It was right at Labor Day weekend so for all 3 days of Labor Day weekend everyone in our plant plus everyone in our sister plant plus any high school kids that were interested set at tables ripping that one page out of the magazine, running a glue strip down the spine and inserting the new page 121-122 by hand. If you find a copy of it it's probably a collectors item by now. They never gave us a dollar figure on what it ended up costing them but the following April they announced the closing of that plant. :cry: