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prepress_brillance_43 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 01:24 PM

I have been running the ctp & workflow since june/july and just made my first HUGH mistake.... and it made it ALL the way to press. 9000 shts wasted because of a stupid imposition error. GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

THIS is when this job SUCKS!!!

wipe the dirt off my shoulders and move on....

ops: i guess im lucky to not work in one of those shops you get fired at for a mistake like that.

but the pressman and manager didnt catch it either. I caught it 9000 shts into the back side. :roll:

medwards · #2 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 01:55 PM

That sucks!!! What exactly happend?

SlaveToTheMan · #3 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 02:28 PM

Damn, hate when that happens. :?

I did one a few weeks ago, where the imposition was incorrect but not critically bad. It just made the bindery guys have to adjust something when they did the stitching, so I hear. I bought 'em a box of donuts the next day & all was forgiven. Behold - the power of fried dough!

Raiderfrog · #4 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 02:50 PM

I will drink for you tonight. 8)

jimking · #5 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 03:36 PM

Tell us what happened.

DCurry · #6 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 03:40 PM

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.

2. Transposed the numbers on a PMS color - in the file it said 2395 (pink) and I wrote down 2935 (blue) on the job ticket. We must have talked the customer into accepting it cuz I haven't run new plates for it. I think this is a pitfall of having our CSRs say, "Tell me what PMS color is in the file" instead of requiring the customer to tell us in writing what color to use. Plus, the incorrect PMS number was written on the proof approval sheet, but the color blueline looked correct, so I can't really blame the customer. Darn - I want to blame someone! How about the pressman who ran the job - it didn't match the aforementioned blueline. Yeah, that's the ticket - it's all his fault!

pix3lphr3ak · #7 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 04:17 PM

So for my only major mishap was a perfecting K/K book with a bleeding deadline (needed it yesterday) that was supposed to be Perfect Bound instead of Saddle Stitch Signatures (40+ plates). It was a shared fault communication problem between me and the manager, the customer's customer got their books on-time then it was discovered there was a one-line reflow that effected 1/4 of the book. Guess they didn't look at the proof... (Quack 5 to Quack 6 reflow, go figure). They kept the books and we ran the reflowed section Saddle Stitch at half price.

That was a badddddd week.

Oh, and KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK on wood.

Annod · #8 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 04:55 PM

Yea, I had a bad week last week.

I proofed some Tea Tags that were needed yesterday (go figure!) & didn't save the illustrator file before saving as PDF. So customer signed off on correct proof, but I outputted the old proof. DAMM!

ops:

The difference was just on the black plate - a font change - pretty obvious!

Thing is, because we all had to rush through it so quickly, I didn't pay the required attention when checking the negs against the proof, the printer and our production manager didn't pick up the mistake when printing & the re-winders didn't pick it up either.

ops:

prepress_brillance_43 · #9 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 07:39 PM

back side of a calendar cover was fliped 180 degrees so the back up was upside down. it was on a gang run so I had done the imposition manually in Indesign. changes were made after proofing. no new proof because the job was an inhouse job...

ops: i am soo embarrassed. :cry: it is the thing you dont do/

ALWAYS get APPROVALS AFTER changes!! :x i should have run a new imposition proof. even if it was an 8.5 x 11 laser!!! stupid stupid stupid.

Annod · #10 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 07:46 PM

Don't feel too stupid.... by taking a quick read of this topic, you can see that as much as us Prepress Professionals try to portray to everyone else (especially the printers) that we're perfect, we can't be all the time.

But we are still closer to perfect than those printers :wink:

Just make sure you blame it on someone else!