"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
Yep, it's not the quality of the machine in these instances, but rather of the press operator, and shop management. Too often, it's quantity not quality, mostly on the simple jobs.
before I decided to get into printing I had a couple shops that i had printing for me. the quality and level of care was pretty crappy and the main reason i went out and bought equipment and started this journey. I remember looking at a job for someone else at one of the shops, (i visited there on every order I placed) where the print was pretty rip- $ciznit- bang- crappy, I asked is that OK? the answer was most customers have no clue, they are like cows they will just stand around and moo but not much more.I could not believe that...they never got another order from me. unbelieveablemooseman
Many of us dinosaurs also see the new trend of relative newbies jumping on autos far before they have mastered the basic principles of screen printing via a manual, so now, they can screw up shirts at a much faster rate.
But what about the art itself? Except for hard nosed contract printers, is there one of you that would have allowed this on their press? Wouldn't you have at the very least pointed out that it requires some cleaning up or re-draw?