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Re: New Customer Wants Custom Neck Labels/Care Inst
« Reply #30 on: September 25, 2015, 02:22:21 PM »
Well, on a MUCH more serious note, my printer was late coming back from lunch and he came to me when he arrived and showed me a text his wife (who also works here) received from his brother in law, or so he thought.  His wife's brother has been kidnapped by the cartel in Monterey Mexico and they sent a pic and are extorting the family now.  This is bad.  I don't even know what to say.  I don't have a good feeling about this.  I just told him to go handle what he needs to handle and we'll see him when he gets back.  I hope it doesn't turn out any worse than it already is.

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Re: New Customer Wants Custom Neck Labels/Care Inst
« Reply #31 on: September 25, 2015, 10:13:03 PM »
Alan to get back to what you wrote about your printer messing up a 2k job.
Our printers have to take the first print they do after setting up with the work file to the graphic designers to get approval before printing the order.
The best workers make mistakes, you system has to allow for this.
Also back to the neck labor, I am in India visiting my shirt supplier, here they do containers of shirts with iron on labels, but labor is cheap here.
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Re: New Customer Wants Custom Neck Labels/Care Inst
« Reply #32 on: September 26, 2015, 06:05:46 AM »
Alan to get back to what you wrote about your printer messing up a 2k job.
Our printers have to take the first print they do after setting up with the work file to the graphic designers to get approval before printing the order.

yep, we do the same. always need approval from the press op and the designer/commercial that worked the order (depends on who's available).

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Re: New Customer Wants Custom Neck Labels/Care Inst
« Reply #33 on: September 29, 2015, 09:32:31 AM »
We've done the "approval" thing many times over the years and it's usually something that we do right after we make a stupid mistake, it goes on for a few months, then we see that we waste about an hour per day waiting around for me or my artist (I don't trust my current artist to approve anything) or the former GM here (currently a sales person/scheduler) to approve a print.  The busier we are the more I may or may not be sitting around waiting to look at a print.  I'd love to do a cost analysis on this because we've made one mistake this year that cost us any significant time or money and that was the other day.  So is it worth it to lose several hours a week of waiting around or just deal with one or two bad mistakes per year.  Don't get me wrong, on tougher jobs, multi-colored/specific pantone color matches we absolutely get an approval from myself before we run, but on a one color back print typically it's left up to the crew to make the right choice and read the Work Order.  I do agree that there needs to be at least 2 people that are checking things like this at all times, and I've been the main person that takes on the responsibility as well it should be, but I can't even begin to explain just how busy I've been since we've virtually doubled in size over the last 2 months. 

Wish I had more time to talk about this, but my printer has gone to Mexico and who knows if he'll ever be back.  I am currently training both new guys to run the press. 
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Re: New Customer Wants Custom Neck Labels/Care Inst
« Reply #34 on: September 29, 2015, 01:28:19 PM »
my printer has gone to Mexico and who knows if he'll ever be back.   

His name isn't christian is it.. that guy runs off from all the shops
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