ouch big foul up

[Gabe]

http://news.yahoo.com/oops-university-misspells-own-name-70k-worth-canvas-153200695.html
I don`t blame the university, but in the shop nobody never caught it

[jsheridan]

Why not blame the univ.. it was their fault. They did approve the art, twice!

[larryk]

WOW.... that kind of brings into perspective the 20 shirt order I reprinted this morning for our local HS state swim team. One name spelled wrong on the proof, corrected and OK'd for print.... came in to pick up last night and it was still spelled wrong. Had the shirts in stock and will be out the door by the time the team leaves for the event this morning. No charge for the second set of shirts even though it was not our fault but I don't think I could do that for that many bags......... however I would like a crack at printing them bags next year. I'm sur I wuld have cauhgt that tiepoh.

[Sbrem]

We did shirts for the Universary of Cincinnati once... (real short run for the bookstore though) It's always amazing that so many people see it and don't catch it.

Steve

[inkman996]

Did any one catch the part where they said half the order was misprinted? That means someone caught the error and I wonder if it was the printer? We do orders like these all the time for Universities, we still proof read everything even if approved by their own staff, no matter what even tho it is their fault we would still look like an A$$ if we let that slip by.

[Gabe]

Why not blame the univ.. it was their fault. They did approve the art, twice!

and the university did approved it,In any screen printing shop the first line of defence is the art department,
second the pre press guy, following by the screen printer   

[Sbrem]

Why not blame the univ.. it was their fault. They did approve the art, twice!

and the university did approved it,In any screen printing shop the first line of defence is the art department,
second the pre press guy, following by the screen printer

then the catcher/folder

Steve

[Ryan]

one of the very first jobs I did was for a college, long before I knew about doing proofs, getting approval etc. I spelled college wrong. was about 72 pcs, reminded all the time whenever I see something spelled wrong.

[JBLUE]

Did any one catch the part where they said half the order was misprinted? That means someone caught the error and I wonder if it was the printer? We do orders like these all the time for Universities, we still proof read everything even if approved by their own staff, no matter what even tho it is their fault we would still look like an A$$ if we let that slip by.

You have to remember that a print shop that size that ran them probably does not have that many people that can speak english let alone read it. Most of the ones that can speak it probably cant spell it either. In big production shops the people are like robots. It should have never made it out of the art department and onto the floor. Especially with an order of that size.

[3Deep]

The eyes can play tricks on ya...if you look at something alot it can look right...I think most of use read stuff and just know the word and never check our spelling, lord knows I,m the worst at it.

Darryl

[Nick Bane]

You have to remember that a print shop that size that ran them probably does not have that many people that can speak english let alone read it. Most of the ones that can speak it probably cant spell it either. In big production shops the people are like robots. It should have never made it out of the art department and onto the floor. Especially with an order of that size.

and also a shop that size and scope should have a quality control process as well and the person in charge of QC absolutely should have caught that, it is their job.

[cvreeland]

I know a guy who used to bootleg hot market shirts -- football games, spring break, etc. (he "went straight" many years ago...)

One time, he was out in the parking lot of a football game, & it came to his attention that his competition on the other side of the stadium was selling shirts extolling the athletes from "Noter Dame."

Another time, we took in a job from an ad agency -- they submitted art proofs to their client, who approved it. He sent us the file, which we output, burned to screens, & set up on press, & he came to a press check, and signed off on a physical proof. We were underway with his 1500 shirt order when another client walked in through the back door, and as he breezed past the folding table, he glanced over & said "District is spelled wrong."

So. Agency guy. Client. My art guy. 2 guys in the screen room. Me, production manager. Press operator. Helper. Belt guy. We ALL missed it. For 500 shirts.

Fortunately, the tag line "Sponsored by Disrict Attorney Blah Blah" was in black beneath the whole design as a separate tag line, so we very carefully zimmed "Disrict" out and made a manual screen that had "District in a slightly more-compressed version so it would fit, then manually lined them up and printed just the one word back in.

[Admiral]

we purposely misspelled Michigan State as 'Michigin State' and gave them out for free to MSU fans at Michigan vs MSU football, the shirts had our logo on the back

it was pretty easy to give them to State fans without them catching it, one friend posed with a couple of the guys that were so grateful for the free shirts

[Chadwick]

One must always be diligent, to the point of being a prick.
Everyone you work with will act like, what's his/her problem?
This is so f*ckin easy.
Things get printed as per spec, something is wrong,