Printing Error Costs $110 billion – Should Have Used FlightCheck
$110 Billion Dollar Printing Error
Sounds like The Fed needs FlightCheck…
Printing error problems can be costly, yet can be avoided with FlightCheck. Too bad the Fed didn’t use it before costing $110 billion dollars. That’s right, it is being reported that the US Government Federal Reserve had a major printing glitch on the new $100 dollar bills that have been 10 years in the design and production stages. Caught this on a RSS printing feed:
“According to a story by Eamon Javers of CNBC, upwards of 30 percent of bills coming off the press had a defect.”
Source: The $110-billion Printing Error
Preflighting digital layout files is a must, as is spot-checking periodic prints for such a large run. Markzware even offers special government pricing on FlightCheck, in addition to site license discounts. Try the 30-day FlightCheck demo now!
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3 Comments
I’m trying to figure out how Flightcheck would have caught a mechanical creasing problem in the paper. ;-)
Your absolutely right Marc. That is a job for the print operator, but falls into the overall category of Quality Assurance at a typical print-shop and since it was such an interesting article, though it would be nice to share and loosely tie together the two-ends of the production. In a perfect world these quality control checks starting right with the digital files creator(s), going into the prepress department and print-shop. Here more Preflight and Postflight will take place as well as a soft or hard-proof and right to spot-checks on the print runs, and other mechanical checks for color calibration, etc.
Here is a little perfect world chart on quality control from graphic designer to prepress:
Preflight Worlfow – the quality triangle
This “free sharing” of inofrmiaton seems too good to be true. Like communism.